U.S. Conducts Strikes in Iraq Against Three Iran-Linked Sites. The United States said it struck three sites used by Iranian-backed forces in Iraq at dawn on Tuesday. At least one member of a pro-Iran Iraqi faction was killed and 24 others wounded in strikes in the early hours of Tuesday (December 26th) on three sites in Iraq used by pro- Iranian groups, Iraqi security sources said. An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said a strike had targeted a Hashd al-Shaabi site in Hilla, the capital of Babylon province, south of Baghdad.