ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq wants to end the US-led coalition’s mission “more than ever before”, the country’s top military spokesperson said following a US drone strike in Baghdad on Wednesday night that killed two militia officials.

“This path pushes the Iraqi government, more than ever before, to end the mission of this coalition, which has become a factor of instability for Iraq, and threatens to drag Iraq into the circle of conflict,” the Iraqi prime minister’s military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said in a statement on Thursday.

The US Central Command in a statement announced that they had killed a Kataib Hezbollah commander “responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region.”

The identity of one of the three people killed in the car targeted by the US was identified as Abu Baqir al-Saadi, described to be in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s logistics.

Kataib Hezbollah, a pro-Iran armed group which is part of the Iran-led Islamic Resistance network of militias announced that they would temporarily suspend all activities targeting US forces after US President Joe Biden announced that the US would respond to the killing of three of its service members in Jordan.

However, their strategy did not keep them off the US target.

In a statement on Wednesday, al-Nujaba brigade, which is also part of the same network, called for a mass mobilization following the US attack.

The US launched the first round of retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday for the death of three US service members in Jordan late last month.