US launches strikes in Iraq on militia groups backed by Iran

Pentagon calls attacks ‘necessary and proportionate’, after US personnel were injured in a weekend attack in Iraq

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The US has carried out strikes in Iraq against three facilities linked to Iran-backed militia, the Pentagon has said, after a weekend attack on an Iraqi airbase that wounded US forces.

“US military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq,” the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said in a statement. Continue reading...


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