Baqir al-Saadi, commander of Kataib Hezbollah, was killed this Wednesday in a US drone attack in eastern Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. The attack on a vehicle used by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces also killed two others.
According to Reuters, citing sources in the US army, Baqir al-Saadi was involved in the terrorist attack that killed three American soldiers in Jordan.
The attack took place on a main street in the Mashtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, causing a crowd to gather as emergency crews searched what was left of the vehicle.
“(U.S.) forces carried out a unilateral attack in Iraq in response to attacks on U.S. forces, killing a Kataib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks against U.S. forces in the region,” the military said in a statement, accompanied by Reuters had access.
Over the weekend, the United States attacked Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Syria in what the country said was just the beginning of its response to the deaths of three American soldiers. More than 85 targets were hit.
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