{"id":82048,"date":"2026-04-24T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:48:10","slug":"iraqi-faction-denounces-10m-us-bounty-on-its-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82048\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi faction denounces $10M US bounty on its leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iraqi armed group Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada on Friday condemned a US decision to offer a financial reward for information leading to its secretary-general, Abu Alaa al-Walai, describing the move as politically and morally unfounded.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the group said placing a bounty on its leader reflects a \u201clack of ethical grounding\u201d and \u201cweakness in confrontation,\u201d arguing that public support cannot be undermined through financial incentives. It added that al-Walai\u2019s standing \u201ccannot be measured or diminished by such measures,\u201d asserting that attempts to target him would only deepen rejection among his supporters.<\/p>\n

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The US Department of State, through its Rewards for Justice program, offered<\/a> up to $10 million for information on Hashem Finyan Rahim al-Sarraji, also known as Abu Alaa al-Walai. Washington has previously designated both the group and its leader under counterterrorism frameworks. In November 2023, the US labeled them as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, before adding the group to its Foreign Terrorist Organization list in September 2025. US officials describe Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada as an Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite faction formed in 2013 following a split from Kataib Hezbollah, and link it to attacks targeting U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-24T17:22:37+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The Iraqi armed group Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[29432,29431,152,94,29430,7357,153],"class_list":["post-82048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-abu-alaa-al-walai","tag-bounty","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-faction-denounces-10m-us-bounty-on-its-leader","tag-kataib-sayyid-al-shuhada","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116460945727716782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048","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=82048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}