The US Treasury Department building in Washington, DC. (Photo: Associated Press)
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – The US announced on Wednesday that it was imposing new sanctions on the Deputy Head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Abdul Aziz al-Muhammadawi, also known as Abu Fadak.
Muhammadawi replaced Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as head of Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH), following Muhandis’ death last January in a US drone strike, targeting Gen. Qasim Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-QF.)
As explained in the State Department press release announcing the new sanctions, KH was established in 2006. US-led forces were then still fighting in Iraq, after toppling Saddam Hussein and his regime three years before.
The United States has designated former Secretary-General of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group as a global terrorist, informed the US State Department on Wednesday. Today the United States is designating Abd al-Aziz Malluh Mirjirash al-Muhammadawi - also known as Abu Fadak - as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) pursuant to Executive Order 13224, the release said. Muhammadawi is the former Secretary-General of Kataib Hezbollah (KH), a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and SDGT. The State Department said Kataib Hezbollah wants to advance Iran s malign agenda in the region and is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Iraq. In addition, KH has reportedly been involved in recent and widespread theft of Iraqi state resources and the killing, abduction, and torture of peaceful protesters and activists in Iraq, the release said.
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Supporters of Iranian-backed PMF militias hold a candlelight vigil at the site of the Jan. 3, 2020, US drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasim Solemani and PMF leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Jan. 2, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Crowds gathered on Saturday night on the main highway leading to Baghdad International Airport at the site of a US drone strike one year earlier that killed Iran’s top general Qasim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of the Iranian-backed militia Kata’ib Hizbollah.
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Damaged vehicle and building due to a rocket attack in Baghdad s fortified Green Zone. (Photo: Social Media)
Three rockets hit Baghdad’s Green Zone amid heightened tensions in Iraq
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Three rockets hit Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Sunday evening, the Iraqi military said, causing light damage and no casualties in yet another attack to target the security zone in recent weeks.
“An unlawful group” launched a “number of rockets” from the al-Rasheed camp area towards the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq’s Security Media Cell wrote on Twitter. The rockets fell on the Qadisiyah residential buildings causing damage to buildings and cars. There were reportedly no casualties.
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