A car drives past a billboard bearing images of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and Akram al-Kaabi, Secretary-General of the Kataib al-Nujaa, near the Iraqi Intelligence Directorate in the Mansour district of Baghdad. AFP
At around 10:00 am local time (0700 GMT) the Iraqi National Intelligence Service was attacked in a drone strike, said Saad Maan, head of the Iraqi government's security media unit.
"An officer was martyred," the Iraqi intelligence agency said in a statement, condemning the strike as a "terrorist attack carried out by rogue elements".
No group immediately claimed responsibility.
An officer was also wounded in the attack, according to a security official and an emergency services source.
The attack occurred in the affluent Mansour neighbourhood, during celebrations marking Eid al-Fitr.
Earlier, an Iraqi security official told AFP the attack targeted a "telecommunications tower" used by the National Intelligence Services.
He later said the targeted building houses a unit responsible for monitoring and tracking the recent strikes and rocket fire across the city.
Since the US and Iran started a war on Iran with unilateral strikes on 28 February 2026, Iraqi armed groups have carried out several drone strikes against the US embassy and a logistics centre at the international airport.
Another drone, filming the operation, crashed into a private members sports club popular with the Iraqi elite and foreign diplomats, according to the same source.
Overnight from Friday to Saturday, at least three drone attacks targeted the logistics hub, according to two security officials.
However, the US embassy was not targeted for the third consecutive night, after the influential Kataeb Hezbollah pledged on Thursday to observe a five-day pause on attacking the embassy, under certain conditions.
The group listed several conditions, including Israel ceasing its bombardment of the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Separately, a fighter from the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi was killed late Friday in a strike on a military airfield in northern Iraq. The group blamed the attack on the US and Israel.
On Thursday, the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that combat helicopters had carried out strikes against armed groups in Iraq during the ongoing war.
Speaking on Friday on state of the US-Israeli war on Iran, US President Donald Trump stressed that Washington "does not want a ceasefire" claiming it "won the war."
“Look we can have dialogue but I don’t want to do a ceasefire. You don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side,” Trump said on whether there could be a dialogue or a truce deal with Tehran.
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