Kataeb Hezbollah demands every ‘foreign soldier’ leave Iraq

By AFP 17 March 2026, 9:20 pm

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Powerful Iran-backed armed group Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq demands that every “foreign soldier” leave the country, its security chief says.

“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 says in a statement.

The group — designated by Washington as a terrorist organization — 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, and which has always demanded the withdrawal of US troops from the country.