Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with
Iran and rose to be a senior militia commander during the war against the
Islamic State group, was killed overnight Friday in a U.S. strike that also felled Iran's top general.
Al-Muhandis was the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly Shiite paramilitaries.
The U.S. blamed the group, which is separate from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, for a rocket attack in northern
Iraq last week that killed a U.S. contractor.