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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the suspension of all its military operations against U.S. troops in the region, in a decision aimed at preventing embarrassment of the Iraqi government, the group said...
As we announce the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces in order to prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government we will continue to defend our people in Gaza in other ways, Kataib Hezbollah Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said in a statement released by the group on Telegram...
Three U.S. troops were killed in a drone attack near the Jordan-Syria border on Sunday that the Pentagon said bore the footprints of Kataib Hezbollah, though a final assessment had not yet been made...
Kataib Hezbollah is the most powerful faction in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of hardline Shiite armed factions that have claimed more than 150 attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria since the Gaza war began...
Kataib Hezbollahs decision followed days of intensive efforts by Iraqs prime minister to prevent a new escalation after the Jordan attack, his foreign affairs adviser Farhad Alaadin said.. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has been hard at work in the past few days, engaging with all relevant parties inside and outside Iraq, Alaadin said in an interview...
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