The Israeli military has reportedly killed a senior Hezbollah commander who is said to have helped plan an attack on US soldiers in Iraq in 2007, Al Jazeera quotes US outlet NBC as reporting.

Citing an anonymous senior US defence official, NBC reports that Ali Mussa Daqduq — who allegedly played a key role in the Karbala raid, in which fighters disguised as an American security team entered a base, opened fire and killed five US soldiers — was killed in a recent air strike in Syria.

It was not immediately clear when or where in Syria the killing took place, nor whether it targeted Daqduq specifically, the senior defence official told NBC.

Daqduq was captured by US forces but later released by the Iraqi government following the US’s withdrawal from the country, Al Jazeera noted.