The US military said its troops launched an early morning operation in the village of Fawwaliyah in Diyala to capture the militant.
"The operation was targeting a splinter group leader, who was not honoring Moqtada al-Sadr's pledge to cease attacks and who was involved in weapons procurement, kidnapping and explosively-formed penetrator [EFP] attacks," the military said in a statement.
Without revealing the identity of the militant, the statement said he had ties with an Iranian intelligence cell.
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