Footage shows a burning car after the US carried out a drone strike in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday. The US military’s Central Command posted a statement on X that American forces had ‘conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on US service members, killing a Kataib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on US forces in the region’. Three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia were killed in the strike<\/p>\n
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