The U.S. Armed Forces have conducted a series of strikes targeting three facilities used by the militant group Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq, announces Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. “Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq. These precision strikes are in direct response to a series of escalatory attacks against U.S. and Coalition personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-sponsored militias,” stated the Pentagon ch…