Kataeb Hezbollah vows to keep arms as Iraq faces US pressure to disarm groups

BAGHDAD: The influential Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah pledged on Saturday to keep up its “militant action,” as Baghdad faces mounting US pressure to disarm factions backed by Iran. Following the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran at the end of February, groups operating under the banner of the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” carried out repeated drone and rocket attacks on US interests in the country. Washington, in turn, bombed facilities and bases belonging to the groups, including Kataeb Hezbollah, killing dozens of their members.

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Al-Assaf said “militant action is today a collective duty, and we will carry it out on behalf of the brothers who have decided to abandon it“

Assaf suggested that Kataeb Hezbollah was willing to work with those other groups

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BAGHDAD: The influential Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah pledged on Saturday to keep up its “militant action,” as Baghdad faces mounting US pressure to disarm factions backed by Iran.

Kataeb Hezbollah vows to keep arms as Iraq faces US pressure to disarm groups

Kataeb Hezbollah vows to keep arms as Iraq faces US pressure to disarm groups

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