Strikes said to kill two Iran-backed fighters near Iraq-Syria border

Two fighters from the powerful Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah were killed today in an airstrike near the Iraqi-Syrian border, two sources from the pro-Iran faction tell AFP.

“Two fighters from Kataeb Hezbollah were martyred in an American-Israeli bombing” near the al-Qaim border crossing in western Iraq, they say.

Another group official confirmed the toll.

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