BAGHDAD: A drone strike hit a automotive within the Iraqi capital Wednesday (Feb 7) night time, killing three members of the highly effective Kataib Hezbollah militia together with a high-ranking commander, militia officers stated.
The strike occurred on a major thoroughfare within the Mashtal neighbourhood in jap Baghdad. A crowd gathered as emergency response groups picked by way of the wreckage.
Two officers with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq stated that a kind of killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander answerable for Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.
The officers spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to talk with journalists.
The strike got here days after the US navy launched an air assault on dozens of websites 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 stated they think Kataib Hezbollah particularly of main it.