AN AIR strike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad today killed a high-ranking militia commander, militia officials said.

The attack comes amid mounting regional tensions and coincides with a push by Iraqi officials for US-led coalition forces to leave the country.

The Popular Mobilisation Force (PMF), a coalition of militias that is nominally under the control of the Iraqi military, announced in a statement that its deputy head of operations in Baghdad, Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi, had been killed “as a result of brutal American aggression.”