The U.S. launched a drone strike in Baghdad on Wednesday evening, targeting the head of the Kataib Hezbollah militia’s Syria operations, according to reports.

The strike killed three members of the Iran-backed militia, including a high-ranking commander, the Associated Press reported. 

One of the three killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria, unnamed officials with the militias told the AP.

The strike targeted the group’s car as it traveled on a main road in the Mashtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.

The drone strike comes days after the U.S. military launched retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting Iran-backed militias in response to a drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan late last month.

The attack in Jordan was carried about by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iran-backed militias, according to U.S. officials, who believe Kataib Hezbollah led the attack.

The coalition has claimed responsibility for attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria. The Islamic Resistance says the strikes have been in response to U.S. support of the Israel–Hamas War.

The strikes on Wednesday came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas cease-fire demands, vowing to fight on until “absolute victory.”

“Surrendering to Hamas’s delusional demands that we heard now not only won’t lead to freeing the captives, it will just invite another massacre,” Netanyahu said in a nationally televised news conference Wednesday evening, according to the Associated Press.