Kataib Hezbollah leader killed in Baghdad drone attack, reports say

Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a high-ranking official in Kataib Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported militia in Iraq implicated by the Pentagon in the assault that resulted in the death of three US soldiers, was killed during a drone attack on a vehicle in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday evening, Reuters reported.

According to Reuters, three people were killed in the incident, and the vehicle that was struck belonged to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a governmental security entity consisting of numerous armed factions, with several having strong ties to Iran.

US officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday's strike, Reuters reported.