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A US State Department reward poster featuring Haydar Muzhir Malak al Saidi, the head of the Iraqi militia Harakat Ansar al Awfiya. <\/p>\n A US State Department reward poster featuring Haydar Muzhir Malak al Saidi, the head of the Iraqi militia Harakat Ansar al Awfiya. <\/p>\n
On April 27, the US State Department\u2019s Rewards for Justice program offered<\/a> a $10 million reward for information on Haydar Muzhir Malak al Saidi, the leader of Harakat Ansar Allah al Awfiya, an Iraqi militia and US Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization (SDGT). The latest US bounty comes after two other $10 million rewards were offered for Iranian-backed militia leaders in April, and as militia attacks continue<\/a> on targets in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n \u201cHAAA members have attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq, as well as U.S. military bases and personnel in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, killing U.S. servicemembers,\u201d the US said in a poster detailing the reward for information on Saidi.<\/p>\n In addition to Saidi, on April 24, the Rewards for Justice program said it was offering $10 million for information<\/a> on Kataib Sayyid al Shuhada leader Hisham Finyan al Saraji, who is also known as Abu Ala al Walai. On April 14, Rewards for Justice also posted a $10 million reward<\/a> for information on Ahmad al Hamidawi, the leader of Kataib Hezbollah. Hamidawi is responsible for kidnapping US citizens and killing Iraqis, the State Department\u2019s program noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, on April 1, the US offered<\/a> $3 million for information about attacks on US diplomatic facilities in Iraq. The offer followed numerous attacks on these sites by Iranian-backed Iraqi groups after US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28.<\/p>\n The groups targeted by the US<\/p>\n Kataib Hezbollah (KH) and its leaders<\/a> have been heavily sanctioned<\/a> in the past by the US government. The State Department named<\/a> it a designated<\/a> Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in 2009. At the time, the US Treasury Department also designated KH\u2019s former leader, Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Muhandis was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020, alongside Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF) leader Qasem Soleimani.<\/p>\n Kataib Hezbollah kidnapped<\/a> US journalist Shelly Kittelson in 2026 and Princeton researcher<\/a> Elizabeth Tsurkov in 2023. Kittelson was freed<\/a> on April 8, after a week of being held, and Tsurkov was freed<\/a> in September 2025. KH is also reportedly behind a January 2024 drone attack that killed<\/a> three American servicemembers in Jordan.<\/p>\n Prior to last month\u2019s reward offer for information on Hamidawi, the State Department designated<\/a> the militia leader as an SDGT in February 2020. The US Treasury Department also sanctioned<\/a> Hamidawi\u2019s brother and other KH members in 2024. Several additional commanders<\/a> in the group were designated<\/a> as SDGTs by the US Treasury Department on April 17.<\/p>\n Kataib Sayyid al Shuhada (KSS) was designated<\/a> by the US State Department as an FTO in September 2025, after State designated<\/a> both KSS and Saraji, the group\u2019s leader, as SDGTs in November 2023. \u201cKSS terrorist activity has threatened the lives of both U.S. and Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS personnel in Iraq and Syria,\u201d the State Department said<\/a> during the earlier designations. Photos posted on social media show Saraji attending a meeting<\/a> of the Shiite Coordination Framework, one of Iraq\u2019s main political blocs, on the same day the US offered<\/a> a reward for information on him.<\/p>\n Harakat Ansar Allah al Awfiya (HAAA) was designated<\/a> as an FTO by the State Department in September 2025, along with KSS. HAAA and Saidi, the group\u2019s leader, were previously designated<\/a> by the US as SDGTs in June 2024. At the time, the State Department accused<\/a> HAAA of being one of several Iran-backed militias that are part of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI). State described the IRI as \u201ca front group that includes multiple Iran-aligned terrorist and militia groups, including U.S.-designated terrorist organizations Kata\u2019ib Hizballah, Harakat al-Nujaba, and Kata\u2019ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, that have repeatedly attacked Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria.\u201d <\/p>\n On April 27, the US Embassy in Baghdad accused HAAA supporters of launching attacks across the region, including an April 8 attack that targeted US diplomats in the Iraqi capital. \u201cLoyal Supporters of the Ansar Allah Movement [HAAA] terrorists continue to undermine Iraq\u2019s sovereignty, while also threatening the safety and security of Iraqi and American civilians alike. We will not tolerate attacks on American interests, and we expect all measures to be taken to dismantle Iran-aligned terrorist militias in Iraq,\u201d the embassy noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n