Why US airstrikes in Iraq add to fears of a regional war ...Kuwait

On 4 January, the US military carried out an airstrike in central Baghdad which killed Abu Taqwa, a leader of the Harakat al-Nujaba group. The high-ranking commander of this Iran-backed militia was one of the US military’s targets because he had been involved in previous attacks on US personnel in Iraq, according to US Defence officials. Designated a terrorist organisation by the US in 2019, Harakat al-Nujaba exists within the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), which is an umbrella of dozens of mostly Shia armed groups that formed in 2014 to combat the Islamic State (IS). For many years, the US military and Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq have clashed. With Prime Min

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