KERBALA, Iraq/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air campaign on Friday, stating they killed 6 individuals, and warned of harmful effects for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggressiveness against the country’s regular armed forces.
President Barham Salih stated duplicated such infractions might trigger Iraq to unravel into an unsuccessful state and revive the Islamic State militant group. Iraq’s foreign ministry revealed strategies to bring a problem to the United Nations.
The United States safeguarded the air strikes, saying all 5 targets were genuine and stored Iranian-supplied weapons utilized by the Kataib Hezbollah militia to assault the U.S.-led coalition. Washington released the strikes in retaliation for a rocket attack on Wednesday on a base north of Baghdad that eliminated U.S. and British soldiers.
” These areas that we struck are clear areas of terrorist bases,” stated Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. armed force’s Central Command.
” If Iraqis existed and if Iraqi military forces existed, I would state it’s probably not a good concept to place yourself with Kataib Hezbollah in the wake of a strike that eliminated Americans and coalition members,” he informed a Pentagon news briefing.
The Iraqi military alerted the air campaign would have consequences while the foreign ministry stated it summoned the U.S. and British ambassadors.
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