Roadside bomb strikes US-led coalition convoy southeast of Baghdad

A roadside bomb has exploded near a convoy of trucks carrying equipment belonging to the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq’s southern Province of al-Muthanna.

The explosion took place on Sunday evening when a convoy of vehicles of Iraqi companies contracted with the coalition was moving along a highway linking the provincial capital city of Samawah, located 280 kilometers (174 miles) southeast of Baghdad, to Diwaniyah city in the neighboring al-Qadisiyyah Province, Iraq's Security Media Cell announced in a statement.

The statement added that the blast did not cause any casualties and only damaged one of the convoy trucks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, which is the latest in a series of explosions that have targeted US terrorist forces over the past few months amid growing anti-American sentiments in Iraq.

Earlier on Sunday, anti-terror Kata'ib Hezbollah group, which is part of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), said all Iraqi resistance groups and factions will “use all the weapons at their disposal” against American terrorist forces in the Arab country if Washington refuses to withdraw its forces despite a parliament’s decision to expel them from Iraq.

Muhammad Mohi, spokesman for the group, said in an exclusive interview with Reuters news agency that Baghdad must implement the parliamentary resolution.

“The factions have presented a conditional ceasefire. It includes all factions of the (anti-US) resistance, including those who have been targeting US forces,” he said.

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