Iraqi prime minister condemns US strike on a high-ranking militia commander

Senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot provides details on the major strike on an Iraqi militia leader and the U.S.'s response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea Iraq has condemned the United States after U.S. forces carried out a drone strike in central Baghdad on Thursday that killed a high-ranking militia commander. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Friday that the U.S. targeting and killing Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi -- or "Abu Taqwa," the leader of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi Shi'ite militant group -- was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. A U.S. defense official confirmed that Thursday's drone strike on a vehicle containing the militia leader and three other militia members was authorized as he was responsible for recent attacks on U.S. personnel. Sudani said Friday that the U.S. had bypassed the Iraqi government, which is "the body authorized to impose the law." In his statement, he also reiterated calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from the country.