US charges Iraqi militia figure over 20 plots (opens in new tab)

U.S. prosecutors charged Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national whom authorities described as a senior member of the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah, with six terrorism-related counts after authorities brought him to New York and he appeared in federal court on Friday. The Justice Department accused him of directing or encouraging attacks against U.S. and Israeli interests, including alleged efforts to kill Americans and Jewish civilians in the United States an...