On April 21, Iran-supported Shia militia fighters launched five rockets at a US landing strip near the oil town of Rumeilan, in northeast Syria. The launch site was outside Zummar, close to the Iraq-Syria border on the Iraqi side. No one was injured. A Telegram group associated with the Kataib Hezbollah organization, the most … Read more
Explosions have been reported near a US army base in Syria by the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media network Al Mayadeen on Wednesday. The American base is in the Al-Omar oil field in the Kurdish-controlled region of northeastern Syria, close to the city of Deir ez-Zor. American troops have been present here since at least 2017. The … Read more
US Central Command said on Wednesday evening that it conducted a strike, killing a leader of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah. It happened on a busy street in Baghdad, and a car was seen in flames after it was hit. This is a game-changer. It has some parallels with the US strike in January 2020 … Read more
New York – The Pentagon named the Kata’ib Hezbollah commander killed in the United States strike in Iraq on Wednesday as Wissam Mohammed Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a high-ranking member responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on US forces in the region. Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder wouldn’t specify … Read more
A drone attacked a vehicle in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing at least one person, security sources said after several loud blasts were heard in quick succession across parts of the city. One security source said the strike killed a Kataib Hezbollah commander. A second source said three people were killed and … Read more
NEW YORK – The White House and State Department on Wednesday cautiously acknowledged the Iranian proxy group that claimed it will end its attacks on US forces. On Tuesday, Kataib Hezbollah, a group believed to be responsible for the weekend’s drone attack in Jordan which killed three US service members, said it was stopping … Read more
The Iranian-backed terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah is alleged to have been behind the drone attack that killed three US service members in Jordan on January 27. The US is expected to respond. On January 30, Kataib Hezbollah claimed it would pause attacks on US forces. The Pentagon has said “actions speak louder than words.” … Read more
The US carried out airstrikes in Syria targeting Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah overnight between December 25 and 26. The airstrikes are important. Iranian-backed groups have carried out at least 103 attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria in the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7. These Iranian-backed groups have also targeted US … Read more
Iraqi militias launched a drone attack on Eilat, but the drone never made it and was intercepted by Jordan in its airspace. An X (formerly Twitter) account associated with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella term for multiple pro-iran militias, announced that they had launched a drone attack on Eilat in Israel. The … Read more
