militia fighters: The US military carried out air strikes on Sunday against the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group in response to the killing of a US civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, officials said, according to Nine News Australia. Iraqi security and militia sources said at least 25 militia fighters were killed and at least 55 wounded following three US air strikes in Iraq. To improve your experience update it hereLIVE UPDATESLatest on Australia's bushfire crisis News World Iraqi militia vows response to US strikes By AAP8 41pm Dec 30, 2019Tweet Facebook MailA top Iraqi militia leader warned of a strong response against US forces in Iraq following air strikes in Iraq and Syria that hit several bases of his Iranian-backed group and killed at least 25 people. The blood of the martyrs will not be in vain and our response will be very tough on the American forces in Iraq, senior commander Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, said late on Sunday. He is also one of Iran's most powerful allies in Iraq and formerly headed Kataib Hezbollah, which he founded. Iran said it strongly condemned the raids as terrorism . Mohandes is a senior commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces PMF an umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups mostly consisting of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias that was formally integrated into Iraq's armed forces.
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