The headquarters of MBC Iraq in Baghdad was stormed and set on fire by groups affiliated with armed factions.

19th of October 2024,
a group affiliated with armed factions stormed the MBC Iraq headquarters and set fire to it in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of armed factions’ supporters had broke into MBC Iraq’s headquarters in Baghdad, setting most of it on fire and destroying computers and equipment that belonged to employees of the channel along with breaking windows and ripping off doors.
The infiltrators claimed that they were “upset by the offensive report” regarding Hamas movement’s leader, Yehya Al-Sinwar, who was killed by Israel two days prior. Security forces didn’t fulfill their duty of protecting the building that is located in Al-Jami’a district in Baghdad. The Association for the Defense of Freedom of Journalism condemned this raid, describing it as violation to the constitution, holding the Prime Minister and security services responsible for the break-in, and suspending the work of an office that was not responsible for producing the report that the intruders found offensive. The Association considered the storming of the building by followers of armed factions to be a dangerous precedent after the phenomenon of breaking into satellite and news outlets in Iraq had ceased in the past few years, namely between (2019-2021), which witnessed the storming of many news outlets and media, along with the burning of their headquarters by followers of the ruling Islamic factions.