Key Highlights
- Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese area of al-Qatrani | Photo: AFPBaghdad: A powerful Iran-backed paramilitary group in Iraq vowed Saturday to launch "imminent" retaliatory strikes against U. S.
- military installations following a deadly air raid on one of its southern bases.
- Kataeb Hezbollah, a key faction within Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, issued the threat shortly after airstrikes hit the Jurf al-Sakher military facility, also known as Jurf al-Nasr.
- The group confirmed that at least two of its fighters were killed and several others wounded in the morning attack.
- "We will soon begin attacking American bases in response to their aggression," the group stated in a formal communique.
