The caskets of two slain fighters from Iraq's pro-Iran paramilitary group Hezbollah Brigades (Kataeb Hezbollah), who were killed in a strike on their site in Baghdad's al-Jadriya area, are carried during their funeral at the shrine of Imam Ali in Iraq's central holy city of Najaf on March 14, 2026. (Credit: Qassem al-Kaabi / AFP)
Powerful Iran-backed armed group Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq demanded late Tuesday that every "foreign soldier" leave the country, its security chief said.
"Iraq's instability is due to the malicious American presence, and security will not be achieved until the last foreign soldier leaves Iraqi territory," the group's new security chief Abou Moujahed al-Assaf said in a statement.
The group – designated by Washington as a "terrorist organization" – is part of an umbrella movement known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has been claiming daily attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq and the region, and which has always demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.
Powerful Iran-backed armed group Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq demanded late Tuesday that every "foreign soldier" leave the country, its security chief said.
"Iraq's instability is due to the malicious American presence, and security will not be achieved until the last foreign soldier leaves Iraqi territory," the group's new security chief Abou Moujahed al-Assaf said in a statement.
The group – designated by Washington as a "terrorist organization" – is part of an umbrella movement known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has been claiming daily attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq and the region, and which has always demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.
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