A prominent leader in the Houthi militia was killed in an American strike in Iraq

A prominent field leader in the Houthi terrorist militia was killed in an American strike during his participation within the Iranian axis in Iraq.

The semi-official Iranian Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday that "the field commander of the Houthi group, Hussein Abdullah Mastur al-Shaabal, was killed while carrying out a mission outside Yemen."

The agency explained, quoting its informed sources, that Tasnim Agency: Al-Shaabal was killed in the recent American air strike on Iraqi territory.

Houthi activists and the leader said that Al-Shaabal, who hails from the Marran area of Haydan District in Saada Governorate, the stronghold of the militia leader in northern Yemen, was killed in the so-called “Battle of the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad.”

In turn, Iraqi journalist Othman Al-Mukhtar said that the Houthi leader was killed in Al-Musayyab Hospital as a result of wounds he sustained last Tuesday in the American raid on the Jurf Al-Sakhar area, south of Baghdad.

Al-Othman indicated on the “X” platform that the American raid destroyed a two-story building used to prepare fixed-wing suicide drones. He wondered what the Houthi leader was doing in Jurf al-Sakhar, calling on his country's government to clarify the matter.

Last Tuesday, an American official told Reuters that the United States carried out a strike in Iraq “in self-defense,” indicating that the strike was caused by a threat to the US-led coalition forces.

For their part, American and Iraqi sources said that explosions occurred on Tuesday inside a base used by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces south of Baghdad, killing 4 of its members and wounding 4 others.

Agence France-Presse quoted a security source and an official in the PMF as saying that the death toll had risen to 4, noting that the explosions “resulted from air strikes” that targeted the headquarters with “4 to 5 missiles.”

The security source confirmed the death toll and indicated that it was likely to rise, but said that the explosions “have not yet been known.”

The Sudanese government is obligated to explain the reason for the presence of a leader of the Houthi group in Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad.

The Houthi leader was killed in Al-Musayyab Hospital from wounds sustained in the American raid, last Tuesday, which destroyed a two-story building used to prepare fixed-wing suicide drones pic.twitter.com/bkfW4eQBgt

- Othman Al-Mukhtar (@othmanmhmmadr) August 4, 2024

Jurf al-Sakhar includes camps distributed between the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades and other factions, while the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted an Iraqi official as saying that the raids focused on sites belonging to the pro-Iranian brigades.

The Iraqi police said in a brief statement that the strike “resulted in the killing of four members, including the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the wounding of four others,” but medical and field sources quoted by the newspaper said that “the number of deaths reached 7, without revealing their nationalities.”

Last May, the leader of the Houthi militia, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, announced the start of coordination with the "Islamic resistance in Iraq." During the recent period, the militias announced a number of attacks that they said were carried out in coordination between the Houthis and the "Iraqi resistance."