US-Israeli Strike Kills Six PMF Fighters in Iraq as Kataib Hezbollah Says Senior Official Has Died

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said Monday that six of its fighters were killed by a “Zionist bombing” near the border with Syria as fighting in Iraq amid the US-Israeli war against Iran continues to rage.

The PMF, a coalition of mainly Shia militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and is part of Iraq’s security forces, said another four of its fighters were wounded. The US has launched multiple airstrikes against the group since the start of the war, though the PMF’s statement suggests Israel may have been responsible for Monday’s attack.

Also on Monday, Kataib Hezbollah, one of the largest militias in the PMF and the main Iran-aligned faction, announced that one of its senior officials, Hajj Abu Ali al-Askari, had been killed but offered no details about his death. According to AFP, a US airstrike in Baghdad on Saturday hit a house used by Kataib Hezbollah and killed a senior PMF official.