Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi allegedly pledged thousands of dollars to someone he thought would carry out an attack against a synagogue in New York.
The U.S. carried out an airstrike in Baghdad on Wednesday targeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq that was blamed for attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East, according to U.S. Central Command.
There have been more than 150 rocket and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria since mid-October carried out by Iranian-backed militias claiming they are in support of Palestinians in the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza.
The attack was one of the largest-scale ballistic missile attacks to date that the US has seen carried out by Iran-backed militias in Iraq
US forces killed at least five Iran-backed militia members in a drone strike after the US "identified an imminent attack" was likely to be launched by militia forces in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday, a US official said.
"Between October 17 and November 7 ... U.S. forces have been attacked at least 40 times," Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday.