Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah is likely one of the elite Iraqi armed factions closest to Iran.

Baghdad:

 Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah introduced the suspension of all its navy operations towards U.S. troops within the area, in a call geared toward stopping “embarrassment” to the Iraqi authorities, the group stated in an announcement.

The choice follows the killing of three U.S. troops in a drone assault close to the Jordan-Syria border – an assault that the Pentagon stated bore the “footprints” of Kataib Hezbollah, although a last evaluation had not but been made.

Based within the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah is likely one of the elite Iraqi armed factions closest to Iran.

It’s the strongest armed faction within the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of hardline Shi’ite armed teams which have claimed greater than 150 assaults on U.S. forces for the reason that Gaza conflict started in early October.

Iraq’s authorities is backed by events and militias near Iran, although in a roundabout way by the hardline teams which have been firing on U.S. forces, Western and Iraqi officers say.

Baghdad has condemned the assaults whereas additionally saying regional escalation would proceed so long as the Gaza conflict went on.

U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed on Monday the U.S. would take “all essential actions” to defend its troops after the lethal drone assault, at the same time as President Joe Biden’s administration harassed it was not in search of a conflict with Iran.

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