India, July 29 -- Amid dangling hopes of a final peace deal in the Iran war, the US and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday carried out strikes against Tehran-backed militants in Iraq, who they said launched over two dozen drone attacks in recent days.

The US Central Command said in a statement on X that the American forces, along with the Saudi Arabian armed forces, "conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure."

It said that the US and Saudi fighter aircraft struck several "terrorist logistics and weapons sites" across eastern Iraq in response to more than 30 aerial drone attacks directed by the Iran Guar...