![](\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_4bfef2a62b20cafbef79898b716ae90c.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Israel built two secret military sites in Iraq’s western desert to support operations against Iran, according to a New York Times report, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n
The newspaper, citing Iraqi and regional officials, said a newly discovered site was one of two secret facilities used intermittently by Israel inside Iraq for more than a year.<\/p>\n
Officials said the sites were used for support. air, refueling and medical services and later played a role during the 12-day war against Iran in June 2025.<\/p>\n
One of the sites came to light after Iraqi shepherd Awad al-Shammari encountered unusual military activity near Al-Nukhaib in March and alerted local authorities after seeing helicopters, tents and what appeared to be a makeshift landing strip, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n
The news said that Al-Shammari later disappeared and was found dead, while Iraqi forces sent to investigate the area were also attacked, leaving one soldier dead and two others wounded.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel had set up a military hideout in Iraq’s western desert to support operations against Iran.<\/p>\n
In comments to Anadolu following the Wall Street Journal report, a senior security official rejected claims of Israeli military activity in Iraq’s western desert as “false”.<\/p>\n
The official said Iraqi forces had faced a “mysterious” air operation in the al-Nukhaib desert area in March and that the incident had been dealt with at the time.<\/p>\n
Source: prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel built two secret military sites in Iraq’s western desert to support operations against Iran, according to a New York Times report, Anadolu reports. The newspaper, citing Iraqi and regional officials, said a newly discovered site was one of two secret facilities used intermittently by Israel inside Iraq for more than a year. Officials said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36969,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36967\/revisions\/36969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}