The Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the US military base Victoria in Baghdad with Qare' missiles on Sunday night, with Iranian media reporting conflicting casualty figures among American and NATO forces.
On Sunday night, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched a missile attack against the American Victoria military base at Baghdad International Airport. According to the pro-government channel حامیان پزشکیان, the resistance issued a statement confirming they targeted the installation using Qare' missiles.
Iranian media outlets presented varying casualty figures stemming from the strike. حامیان پزشکیان reported that the attack resulted in the perishing of at least six Americans, with four others wounded.
Meanwhile, فارس بینالملل و سیاست خارجی, an IRGC-affiliated outlet, highlighted multiple conflicting tolls from regional sources. The channel cited the Iraqi news network Naya, reporting that 10 military personnel were killed in the Sunday night strike. Fars News emphasized that it is not yet clear how many of the dead are American and how many are European forces.
In the same dispatch, Fars News relayed a separate statement from a security source who told Baghdad Al-Youm that 5 Americans were killed and wounded at the airport base. To contextualize the discrepancy, the channel added that informed Iraqi sources had previously announced the death toll as 10, stating six of them are NATO forces.
This assault in Baghdad occurs against a backdrop of severe regional instability. Just hours after the Sunday night attack on the Victoria base, a series of roughly 30 massive explosions heavily damaged strategic infrastructure at Mehrabad Airport and surrounding areas in western Tehran early Monday morning, March 16. Local opposition sources have suggested potential Israeli and United States involvement in the Tehran strikes.
Farsi sources use the term 'halakat' (perishing/destruction) to describe the American deaths, which has been translated directly to preserve the original hostile posture of the reporting without utilizing sanitizing quote marks. The source texts contain significant variations in casualty figures, oscillating between 5 total casualties and 10 fatalities, reflecting differing claims from Iraqi regional media forwarded by Iranian channels.