Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
A U.S. strike killed a militia commanderA U.S. Special Operations drone strike in Baghdad killed a senior leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah, a militia that U.S. officials blame for recent attacks against American personnel, the Pentagon said.A senior Kata’ib Hezbollah official and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps both said that two commanders had been killed in the strike. A spokesman for Iraq’s security services said that the strike “violated Iraqi sovereignty and risked dangerous repercussions in the region.”Kata’ib Hezbollah, based in Iraq, is considered a proxy of Iran. The U.S. considers the group a terrorist organization. A drone attack that officials attributed…
