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US carries out strike targeting Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad: official
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest on the foreign policy issues facing the Biden administration on Your World. Four members of an Iran-aligned Iraqi militia group -- including a high-ranking Iraqi militia commander -- were killed in a drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday, according to reports by The Associated Press and Reuters. A U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that the U.S. was responsible for the strike which targeted an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad who is believed responsible for attacks on U.S. forces. The official says this was a precision strike on a vehicle and not a hit on a whole facility as other outlets have reported. The strike targeted a leader of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi Shi'ite military group, the U.S. official said.
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In wake of Soleimani's death, Tehran-backed Hezbollah steps in to guide Iraqi militias
Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentor's death, two sources with knowledge of the meetings said. The meetings were meant to coordinate the political efforts of Iraq's often-fractious militias, which lost not only Soleimani but also Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a unifying Iraqi paramilitary commander, in the Jan. 3 attack at Baghdad airport, the sources said. While offering few details, two additional sources in a pro-Iran regional alliance confirmed that Hezbollah, which is sanctioned as a terrorist group by the United States, has stepped in to help fill the void left by Soleimani in guiding the militias. All sources in this article spoke on condition of anonymity to address sensitive political activities rarely addressed in public. Officials with the governments of Iraq and Iran did not respond to requests for comment, nor did a spokesperson for the militia groups.
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