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US Announces USD10M Bounty Targeting Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Leader
(MENAFN) The US State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced a $10 million bounty Tuesday targeting a senior commander of one of Iraq's most dangerous Iran-aligned militant factions, intensifying Washington's campaign against Tehran-backed armed groups across the region.
"Akram 'Abbas al-Kabi is the founder and leader of Harakat al-Nujaba (HAN), an Iran-aligned terrorist militia group in Iraq," the State Department said, outlining the basis for the reward. Officials further alleged that "HAN members have attacked US diplomatic facilities in Iraq as well as US military bases in Iraq and Syria, killing a US contractor and wounding US service members."
Al-Kabi and HAN were formally designated Specially Designated Global Terrorists by the US government in 2019 — a designation that Tuesday's bounty announcement now reinforces with a direct financial incentive for actionable intelligence.
The move comes weeks after the US Treasury Department imposed fresh sanctions in mid-April on seven senior commanders linked to Kata'ib Hizballah and Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haqq, signaling a broadening crackdown on Iran-backed networks operating throughout Iraq and Syria.
A State Department document from September further detailed the group's ideological allegiances, stating that HAN "has openly pledged its loyalties to Iran" and then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The agency confirmed that Tehran backs the organization "both militarily and logistically," and that the group "had close ties with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force's (IRGC-QF) former commander Qasem Soleimani and former Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah."
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