Paramilitary commander killed in US drone strike in Baghdad

The US military confirmed the killing of a commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon linked to an attack that killed three US troops, in a US drone strike in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday. Crowds gathered at the site of the assassination on Wednesday, where Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Baqir al-Saadi was killed, chanting ‘America is the Greater Satan.’

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Middle East Monitor (@middleeastmonitor)

READ: LIVE UPDATES: 100,000 Palestinians either killed, injured or missing in Gaza

Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.