Iraqi Kurdistan government denies letting US bomb Iran-backed militia
An official from an Iran-backed militia in Iraq accused the Kurdistan Regional Government of allowing the United States to launch bombing runs from Erbil.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq has denied claims that US warplanes took off from its capital Erbil to bomb Iran-backed militias in the country.
Early Monday morning, US fighter jets bombed Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada positions on the western Iraq-eastern Syria border. Both groups are Iraqi militias that receive support from Iran. The groups and allied “resistance” militias have been in conflict with the US military for more than a year, and seek to expel US forces from Iraq. The latest US airstrikes led to an attack on US positions in Syria Monday night.