Kataib Hezbollah vows to keep arms as Iraq faces US pressure to disarm groups

(Al Arabiya) The influential Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah pledged on Saturday to keep up its activities, as Baghdad faces mounting US pressure to disarm factions backed by Iran. Following the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran at the end of February, groups operating under the banner of the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” carried out repeated drone and rocket attacks on US interests in the country. – Kataib Hezbollah vows to keep arms as Iraq faces US pressure to disarm groups