With Agency reports
A U.S. Special Operations drone strike in Baghdad have killed a senior leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah, a militia that U.S. officials blame for recent attacks against American personnel, the Pentagon said.
A senior Kata’ib Hezbollah official and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps both said that two commanders had been killed in the strike. A spokesman for Iraq’s security services said that the strike “violated Iraqi sovereignty and risked dangerous repercussions in the region.”
Kata’ib Hezbollah, based in Iraq, is considered a proxy of Iran.
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The U.S. considers the group a terrorist organization. A drone attack that officials attributed to the group killed three U.S. service members in Jordan late in January, leading President Biden to begin a campaign of retaliation.
U.S. officials have said they are focused on whittling down militias’ arsenals and deterring attacks against U.S. troops, without starting a broader war in the Middle East.
