US denies responsibility for airstrike that killed 6 Iraqi militia leaders
The United States government has rejected the accusation that it carried out an airstrike resulting in the deaths of 6 high-ranking members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which is a coalition of Iran-supported militias.
Multiple reports have claimed that the PMF members were traveling in a three-car convoy north of Baghdad when the airstrike took place.
While Iraqi State TV attributed the strike, which left three others injured, to the US, the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State stated on Saturday, January 4, that it did not conduct any airstrikes near Camp Taji north of Baghdad.
Spokesperson for the Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), Colonel Myles B. Caggins III, tweeted:
"FACT: The Coalition @CJTFOIR did NOT conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji (nort...