[Armed Iraqi Group Claims Attack on U.S. Military Base] Golden Finance reports that an armed group under the "Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement" issued a statement on March 1, stating that "to support Iran in resisting U.S. and Israeli aggression and to defend Iraq's national sovereignty," the group launched a drone attack on a U.S. military base located in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in northern Iraq, on the same day. The group also issued a statement on February 28, claiming that dozens of drones were launched that day to carry out 16 attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. (Xinhua News Agency)