Retaliatory attack after the attack on a base in Jordan: The US military used a drone to attack a vehicle in Baghdad, killing a commander of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia.
A US drone strike in Iraq killed a commander and two other members of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah. The US military announced this. They were attacked on a major highway in eastern Baghdad. The killed commander Abu Bakir al-Saadi is said to have been in charge of operations in Syria.
In January, three US soldiers were killed in a drone strike near the Jordanian-Syrian border. According to the US Department of Defense, there were indications that Kataib Hezbollah was involved in the attack.
US President Joe Biden then announced that the deaths of US soldiers would not be without consequences.
There are repeated battles between militias and US troops
The US had already attacked Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Syria last weekend. In January, a senior militia leader was killed in a US drone strike in central Baghdad. According to the US government, this was also related to attacks on US forces in the region.
In Iraq and Syria, there have been almost daily battles between Iranian-backed militias and US troops since the beginning of the Gaza war.