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U.S. Attacks Against Iraq Increase
The U.S. military continues to violate Iraq's sovereignty by carrying out a drone strike against the eastern section of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing three people, including a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance group. Reuters news agency said the attack targeted a vehicle belonging to Iraq's Hashd al-Sha'abi or Popular Mobilization Units, an umbrella anti-terror group, of which Kata'ib Hezbollah is a member. Kata'ib Hezbollah roundly denounced the U.S. airstrikes, stating that the attacks emanate from the U.S. administration's criminal mindset and its craving for more bloodshed and they are a grave violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
The Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq responded to the U.S. attack saying, "American forces have repeated irresponsibly all the actions that would undermine the established understandings and hinder the initiation of bilateral dialogue. It conducted a blatant assassination through an airstrike in the heart of a residential neighborhood in the capital, Baghdad, showing no regard for civilian lives or international laws. By this act, the American forces jeopardize civil peace, violate Iraqi sovereignty, and disregard the safety and lives of our citizens. Even more concerning is that the coalition consistently deviates from the reasons and objectives for its presence on our territory. This trajectory compels the Iraqi government more than ever to terminate the mission of this coalition, which has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict, and our armed forces cannot neglect their constitutional duties and responsibilities, which demand safeguarding the security of Iraqis and the land of Iraq from all threats. God's mercy and honor to the martyrs of this attack and to all martyrs of Iraq."
Yahya Rasool, military spokesperson for Iraqi Prime Minister Shia' al-Sudani, said in a statement on February 8 that the "U.S. coalition" in Iraq "has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict." "This path pushes the Iraqi government more than ever before to end the coalition's mission which has become a factor of instability for Iraq," he said.
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Volume 54 Number 10 - February 13, 2024
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