Kataib Hezbollah denies role in recent Iraq rocket attacks
The high-profile, Iran-backed militia denied responsibility for attacks on US targets in Iraq.
Kataib Hezbollah, one of the largest Iran-backed militias in Iraq, publicly denied any involvement in a recent rocket strike on Erbil International Airport and Baghdad’s Green Zone.
“We absolutely did not target Erbil or the Green Zone and have no knowledge of the group that did,” spokesperson Mohammed Mohi told Reuters on Tuesday.
A supposed group calling itself Saraya Awliya al-Dam claimed credit for last week’s 14-rocket barrage on Erbil’s airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The fusillade killed a military contractor and wounded nine others, including a member of the US military.
While some experts have suspected the supposed group is a front for Iran-backed groups such as Kataib Hezbollah or Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Biden administration has avoided publicly blaming Iran for the incident thus far.
