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Iraq says no evidence its territory was used to launch strikes on Saudi Arabia

30 July 2026 15:45 (UTC +04:00)

There’s no evidence that Iraqi territory was used to launch strikes on Saudi Arabia earlier this week, a spokesperson for the country’s prime minister told state-run media today, CNN reports.

The Saudi Defense ministry said this week that drone strikes launched from Iraq had targeted its critical infrastructure and the capital Riyadh on Monday and Tuesday.

“No party has provided any evidence to substantiate these claims so far,” the Iraqi prime minister’s spokesperson Sabah Al-Numan told the Iraqi News Agency.

“The government will not tolerate any unilateral actions originating from within Iraq, while at the same time it will not accept any violation coming from outside its borders,” Al-Numan added.

On Wednesday, US-Saudi strikes on Iraq killed at least 20 people and wounded 32, according to the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iran-aligned Iraqi militia.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi pledged in a meeting with US President Donald Trump this month that his country would confront Iranian-backed militias on its soil, a goal that has eluded previous Iraqi governments.