{"id":26635,"date":"2026-03-19T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:40:06","slug":"us-striking-iran-aligned-militia-in-iraq-top-us-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26635\/","title":{"rendered":"US striking Iran-aligned militia in Iraq, top US general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; The United \u200cStates has carried \u200cout strikes against Iran-aligned \u200bmilitia groups in Iraq, the top U.S. general \u200csaid \u2060on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;AH-64s have been striking \u2060against Iranian-aligned militia groups to \u200bmake sure \u200bthat \u200bwe suppress \u200cany threat in Iraq against U.S. forces or U.S. interests,&#8221; General Dan \u200cCaine, the \u200bchairman \u200bof \u200bthe Joint \u200cChiefs of Staff, \u200btold \u200breporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Phil Stewart, Idrees \u200bAli, \u200cKatharine Jackson, Daphne Psaledakis; \u200bEditing by \u200bAndrew Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; The United \u200cStates has carried \u200cout strikes against Iran-aligned \u200bmilitia groups in Iraq,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[94,9123,12615,1690],"class_list":{"0":"post-26635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-iraq","9":"tag-militia-groups","10":"tag-phil-stewart","11":"tag-the-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116255891495971279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}