BAGHDAD: A drone strike hit a automotive within the Iraqi capital Wednesday (Feb 7) evening, killing three members of the highly effective Kataib Hezbollah militia together with a high-ranking commander, militia officers mentioned.
The strike occurred on a important thoroughfare within the Mashtal neighbourhood in jap Baghdad. A crowd gathered as emergency response groups picked via the wreckage.
Two officers with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq mentioned that a kind of killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander in control of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.
The officers spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to talk with journalists.
The strike got here days after the US navy launched an air assault on dozens of web sites in Iraq and Syria utilized by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for a drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan in late January.
The US has blamed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a broad coalition of Iran-backed militias, for the assault in Jordan, and officers have mentioned they think Kataib Hezbollah specifically of main it.
