news a day after an apparent is really counter-strike against iran, a security official in iraq says five explosions occurred at a military base south of baghdad, belonged to a pro iranian group. however, moments ago and israeli official told cnn israel had no involvement in the explosions us central command, which oversees military actions in the middle east, also says it did not carry out strikes in iraq. whole hancocks joins us now with the latest. so what more do we know about these explosions near baghdad? >> well, understand this information came through to us just after midnight local time when nearly hours of saturday from, a security source saying that there had been a huge explosion at a military base of the popular mobilization forces. now this is one of the bigger iranian backed groups within a rock. it's just south of baghdad and babylon province. we understand from that security source, there were about five x explosions. it is an ammunitions depo as well. so this is the pictures