Iraq: the Al-Noujaba group intends to continue its attacks against American soldiers

The Iraqi Al-Noujaba movement, an influential pro-Iran armed group, announced this Friday that it intended to continue attacks against American troops in the Middle East, despite threats of reprisals brandished by Washington after the death of three of its soldiers in Jordan.

,” Akram al-Kaabi, the leader of Al-Noujaba, which is part of the

nebula of fighters, also warned in a statement .

This grouping of pro-Iran armed movements is directly incriminated by Washington for the deadly drone strike carried out at the end of January against

, a logistics base located in the Jordanian desert on the border with Syria.

The spokesperson for the American National Security Council, John Kirby, even estimated that the attack which killed three American soldiers

of the Hezbollah Brigades, another Iraqi armed group considered one of the main leaders of

.

The Hezbollah Brigades announced at the end of January

of their attacks against American troops in Iraq and Syria, a decision that the al-Noujaba movement assured Friday in its press release that it understood and

.

The international coalition regularly targeted

But

its actions, until its

, namely

and the departure of American soldiers from Iraq, promises Al-Noujaba in the press release.

,” the press release continues.

Since mid-October, at least 165 attacks have targeted American troops and those of the international anti-jihadist coalition in Iraq and Syria, a direct repercussion of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas in Gaza.