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US drone strike in Baghdad kills Iran-backed militia commander, US officials say | World News<\/p>\n
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A US drone strike in Baghdad has killed three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia, including a high-ranking commander, according to US officials.<\/p>\n
The drone strike hit a car in the Iraqi capital – and was in response to a drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan towards the end of January.<\/p>\n
Sky News’s Alex Crawford arrived at the scene shortly after the blast and said there was “great tension” and a “great deal of anger towards America”.<\/p>\n
Crowds gathered as emergency response teams picked through the wreckage.<\/p>\n
The US has blamed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a broad coalition of Iran-backed militias, for the attack in Jordan on its forces, and officials have said they suspect Kataib Hezbollah, in particular, of leading it.<\/p>\n
The strike on Wednesday night hit a main road in the Mashtal neighbourhood in eastern Baghdad.<\/p>\n
A US official said that a senior Kataib Hezbollah commander was targeted in the strike.<\/p>\n
Two officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq said that one of the three killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.<\/p>\n
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to speak to journalists.<\/p>\n
Security forces closed off the heavily guarded Green Zone, where a number of diplomatic compounds are located, amid calls for protesters to storm the US embassy.<\/p>\n
Kataib Hezbollah earlier said in a statement that it was suspending attacks on American troops to avoid “embarrassing the Iraqi government” after the strike in Jordan, but others have vowed to continue fighting.<\/p>\n
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