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A likely Iranian-backed Iraqi militia conducted a one-way drone attack targeting the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) headquarters in Baghdad City on March 21, killing an Iraqi intelligence officer.[lxxi] The Shia Coordination Framework and Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Asaib Ahl al Haq’s political wing condemned the attack.[lxxii] Iranian-backed Iraqi militias view the INIS as a US intelligence “cut-out,“ according to the Washington Post Baghdad Bureau chief.[lxxiii] The United States helped create the INIS in 2004, but Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al Sudani has purged several US-trusted INIS officers and replaced them with Iranian-aligned figures since 2022.[lxxiv]