🇸🇦🇮🇶🇾🇪⚡- Moments ago, a U.S. one-way drone was downed in the Babil Province in Iraq (shown on Rerum Noavrum's map in purple). The group responsible has not yet been identified.

Interestingly, al-Jazeera's Yemen correspondent Ahmed al-Shalfi, citing Iraqi sources, claims an Ansarullah delegation from Yemen recently arrived in Musayyib (shown on the map) in the Babil Province, Iraq, to meet with pro-Iranian Iraqi-based militias. The meeting took place on Saturday, one of the Ansarullah individuals was a senior al-Houthi official Abu Ali al-Azi.

In mid-2024, a U.S. airstrike targeted a house in Jurf al-Shakhar (now Jurf al-Nasr) in northern Babil Province during a clandestine meeting between Ansarullah and Hezbollah figures. Those killed were later identified as Mustafa al-Shabal of Ansarullah and Abu Hassan al-Maliki of Hezbollah.

Ironically, two days after the Ansarullah-Iraqi militias meeting on Saturday, Saudi Arabia claimed Iraqi-based groups attacked ARAMCO's refinery in Abqaiq in the east of the Kingdom.

Has Ansarullah escalated its tit-for-tat campaign with Saudi Arabia by bringing Iraqi-based militias into the fight?