"US Drone Strike Kills Kataib Hezbollah Commander in Baghdad"

A commander from the Iran-backed armed group Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq was killed in a U.S. strike in Baghdad, with the U.S. military stating that the strike was in response to attacks on U.S. troops. The commander, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, was reportedly killed in a drone strike, and the targeted vehicle was associated with Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a state security agency with ties to Iran. Tensions between Iran-backed groups and U.S. forces in the region have escalated, with near daily tit-for-tat attacks, and the U.S. recently conducted strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the killing of three U.S. soldiers.