Baghdad, July 31: Iraqi security forces have largely gained control of an Iranian exiles’ camp in Iraq after fighting which left as many as eight dead and 400 wounded.
The assault on Camp Ashraf, 80 miles north of Baghdad, is the latest episode in the strange history of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a cult-like organisation that has in the past been allied both to Saddam Hussein and the US in its long battle with Tehran’s Islamic government.
–Agencies