Baghdad, March 17, 2026 (AFP) - Powerful Iran-backed group demands every 'foreign soldier' leave Iraq: statement

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2026-03-17

Powerful Iran-backed armed group Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq demanded late Tuesday that every "foreign soldier" leave the country, its security chief said. "Iraq's instability is due to the malicious American presence, and security will not be achieved until the last foreign soldier leaves Iraqi territory," the group's new security chief Abou Moujahed al-Assaf said in a statement. The group -- designated by Washington as a "terrorist organisation" -......

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