Breaking News: Another U.S. Airstrike in North Baghdad, 6 Killed & 3 Injured



US airstrikes targeting an Iraqi militia convoy near camp Taji, north of Baghdad, were reported by Iraqi state TV on Saturday. Pentagon officials confirmed that the strike was carried out by the US and said the operation was meant to target the Imam Ali Brigades.

They further claimed it is likely that the leader of the group, Shubul al-Zaidi, was killed, Newsweek reported on Saturday.

Six people were killed in the strikes, three were critically wounded, an Iraqi army source said.

Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 a.m. local time.

Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella organization of paramilitary groups, said on Saturday that the airstrike hit a convoy of medics, not senior leaders as the Pentagon claimed.

The alleged US airstrikes followed recent US assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Iran warned the UN it reserves the right to defend itself following what it called the "cowardly US bombing."

"This is war," pro-Hezbollah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar said on Friday following Soleimani's assassination.

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