Iran-backed militia suddenly HALTS attacks on US troops as Pentagon say deaths of 3 squaddies bore group’s ‘footprints’

THE chief of Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah tonight announced a halt to the militia’s attacks on US assets inside both Syria and Iraq.

The decision follows the killing of three US troops in a drone ambush near the Jordan-Syria border – an attack that the Pentagon said bore the “footprints” of the terror group.

AFP

The Iraq-based Kata’ib Hezbollah Brigades have called off attacks on US bases and troops in Iraq and Syria[/caption]

Kata’ib Hezbollah Brigades Secretary-General al-Hamidawi said military operations against the US had been suspended and they will find “new ways” to support Gaza.

He said: “As we announce the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces – in order to prevent embarrassment to the Iraqi government – we will continue to defend our people in Gaza in other ways.”

The Hezbollah Brigades are a group affiliated with the Hashed al-Shaabi, an alliance of Iran-backed former paramilitary groups now integrated in Iraq’s regular armed forces.

The US has 45,000 military personnel currently stationed in the Middle East.

The striking announcement followed reports President Joe Biden is is considering blitzing naval targets as he plots a revenge strike for the ambush on the US base that killed three.

Sgt William Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23, were killed in the unprecedented attack on the Tower 22 base in Jordan that injured another 34.

The strike marked the first US deaths by enemy fire since the start of the Israel-Hamas war – a major escalation in the crisis taking hold across the region.

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