Washington: The US State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced a $10 million reward on Tuesday for information leading to the identification or location of Akram 'Abbas al-Kabi. Akram 'Abbas al-Kabi is the founder and leader of Harakat al-Nujaba (HAN), an Iran-aligned terrorist militia group in Iraq. Officials 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.

According to Anadolu Agency, the US previously designated al-Kabi and his organization as Specially Designated Global Terrorists in 2019. The announcement follows US Treasury sanctions on seven commanders from groups including Kata'ib Hizballah and Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haqq in mid-April.

A September document from the State Department stated that the group has openly pledged its loyalties to Iran and then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The agency said Tehran supports HAN 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.