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US drone strike in Baghdad kills Iranian-backed militia commander: officials
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1:20Now PlayingA US drone strike in Iraq’s capital killed three members of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group on Wednesday night, including a high-ranking commander, officials said.
The strike — part of a US retaliatory attack over a drone assault that killed three American soldiers in Jordan last month — struck a car in Baghdad located in the Mashtal neighborhood.
One of the three militants killed in the strike was identified as Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria, according to two officials in the Iran-backed militia group.
Emergency response teams were deployed to the Iraqi neighborhood following the strike to pick up the wreckage, with images of the scene showing crowds huddled around a burnt and hollowed car.
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