Iraq slams US airstrikes, warns of consequences

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Kerbala - President Barham Salih said repeated such violations could cause Iraq to unravel into a failed state and revive the Daesh group.

By Reuters

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Published: Sat 14 Mar 2020, 11:49 PM

Iraq condemned overnight US airstrikes on Friday, with its military saying they had killed six people and describing them as a violation of sovereignty and a targeted aggression against the nation's regular armed forces.
President Barham Salih said repeated such violations could cause Iraq to unravel into a failed state and revive the Daesh group.
The military warned the airstrikes would have consequences while the foreign ministry said it summoned the US and British ambassadors.
The United States said it carried out the series of strikes on Thursday against an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a rocket attack a day earlier which killed two American soldiers and a British soldier.
Long-standing antagonism between the United States and Iran have mostly played out on Iraqi soil in recent months.


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