 U.S. drone strike kills Iraq-based militia leaders. The U.S. carried out a drone strike in the Iraqi capital that killed three members of the Qatayb Hezbollah militia, including a senior commander. Washington's Central Command, CENTCOM, has taken responsibility for the attack. A car in which the trio was travelling was struck in the Mashhtal neighborhood of Baghdad. Local outlet Sabarine News described the attacks as American aggression, photos circulating on social media showed the remnants of what seems to have been a hellfire missile commonly used by U.S. attack drones. Two of the dead have since been identified as Haj Al-Alawi and Wissam Muhammad Abu Bakr Al-Sa'adi, who was in charge of Qatayb Hezbollah's operations in Syria. In a statement posted on X, CENTCOM said it had carried out a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members killing a Qatayb Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. The U.S. has blamed Qatayb Hezbollah for last month's attack that killed three U.S. soldiers at a base on the Syria-Jordan-Iraq border. Following a series of retaliatory U.S. airstrikes, the group announced it would suspend attacks.