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A pro-Iranian Islamic militia in Iraq has called for a united front with other armed groups to expel the US forces from the country. In a statement late Friday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq called on their “brothers in jihad to join the ranks of the resistance and participate effectively in expelling the occupation [US] at this historical stage in Iraq and the region.” “The occupying enemy … only understands the language of weapons,” it said. On Wednesday a US drone strike on Baghdad killed Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a senior commander in Kataib Hezbollah, one of the strongest Iran-allied militia…