Iraq issues US warning after fearful attack killed Baghdad militia commander

Iraq has issued a warning to the United States in response to an air strike late Wednesday in Baghdad that killed a senior commander of the pro-Iranian militia, Kataib Hezbollah.

Iraq's Joint Operational Command called the attack a new <x0-aggression from the United States, adding that the move has moved to “mining all consensus” between Iraq and the US, in a statement posted by spokesman Tahseen Al Khafaji on the X, reports CNN, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

The spokesman also reiterated what the country said after the first series of US attacks on Iraq last Friday in retaliation for the murder of three American soldiers in Jordan, which would call the attacks a “violation of Iraq's sovereignty”.

Kataib Hezbollah is considered the most powerful militia backed by Iran in Iraq and part of a state-sponsored militia consortium known as the PMU, many of them Shiite militia, which help preserve security there.

But just days after the murder of three American soldiers in Jordan on January 28th, Kataib Hezbollah announced he was suspending military operations against American forces.