One of the caskets of two slain fighters from Iraq's pro-Iran paramilitary group Hezbollah Brigades (Kataeb Hezbollah), who were killed in a strike on their site in Baghdad's al-Jadriya area, is carried during their funeral at the shrine of Imam Ali in Iraq's central holy city of Najaf. AFP
"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" -- is part of an umbrella movement known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has been claiming daily attacks on US interests in Iraq and the region.
It has always demanded the withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran in late February, airstrikes on Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq, largely believed to be carried out by the US and Israel, have killed nd wounded tens of Iraqis.
Meanwhile, US bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and the American embassy in Baghdad have sustained multiple drone and missile attacks.
On Saturday, amid repeated attacks on US interests in the country, Washington ordered all of its nationals to immediately leave Iraq.
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