A drone attack on an all-terrain vehicle in Baghdad this Wednesday killed three people involved in attacks on targets of the US-led international coalition in the region.
Among the dead are two leaders of the pro-Iranian militia Kataib Hezbollah, which claimed responsibility for an offensive last week against the US military base Tower 22 in Jordan that left three soldiers dead. Their names are Baqir al Saadi And Arkan al AlaywiAccording to Agencia EFE, they are responsible for facilitating arms transfers and militia operations in Syria.
The third person killed, whose identity is still unknown, is part of the Al-Nujaba movement, a group that, together with Kataib Hezbollah, forms the Popular Mobilization Forces, is de facto integrated into the Iraqi armed forces and whose positions have been targeted by US attacks last Friday in Iraq.
The head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Faleh al Fayyadstressed the need for injury on Sunday at the funeral of the “martyrs” who died in this US attack, which left at least 16 dead and 36 injured and which the Iraqi government described as “cleansing the country of Iraq of foreign presence.” their sovereignty.
All eyes are on Washington. The attack also came during negotiations between Iraq and the United States to withdraw foreign troops from the country, initially deployed as part of a mission to curb the advance of Daesh.
It would not be the Biden administration’s first response to the attack in Jordan. Last weekend, Washington already attacked Iran-backed Iraqi groups in Iraq and Syria over the deaths of three American soldiers.