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The US State Department welcomed the Iraqi judiciary’s move to convict and sentence an Iranian and four Iraqis on charges of killing US citizen Stephen Troell, who was shot dead in a street in Baghdad in November 2022.   “We welcome the Iraqi court’s decision to convict and sentence multiple individuals on terrorism charges for their roles in the killing of US citizen Stephen Troell,” the office of State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Friday.  

An Iraqi court sentenced an Iranian and four Iraqis to life imprisonment on Thursday for killing a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said.

The men confessed to the murder, saying they kidnapped the American for ransom but did not mean to kill him.

Stephen Troell, an aid worker in Baghdad, was killed in November when gunmen opened fire on his car.

Court officials did not name the defendants but said the four Iraqis were members of a Shi’ite Muslim militia