BAGHDAD: Repeated US strikes in opposition to Iran-backed armed teams in Iraq are pushing the Baghdad government to finish the mission of the US-led coalition within the nation, the prime minister’s navy spokesperson mentioned on Thursday.
The US navy mentioned a strike on Wednesday killed a commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops.
Spokesperson Yahya Rasool mentioned in an announcement the US-led coalition “has develop into an element for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq within the cycle of battle”.
In Washington, the Pentagon mentioned it had notified the Iraqi authorities concerning the strike shortly after it had taken place.
Talks between the 2 nations started in January over the way forward for the coalition. However lower than 24 hours later three US troopers have been killed in an assault in Jordan that the USA mentioned was carried out by Iran-backed militant teams in Syria and Iraq and the talks have since paused.
Iraq and the USA will resume negotiations on the way forward for the US-led worldwide navy coalition within the nation on Feb. 11, the Iraqi navy spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
Iraqi Overseas Minister Fuad Hussein referred to as for the resumption of talks in a cellphone name with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday.
Any discussions over the way forward for the coalition are anticipated to take months if not longer, with the result unclear.
The US-led worldwide navy coalition in Iraq was set as much as combat Islamic State. The US has 2,500 troops in Iraq, advising and aiding native forces to forestall a resurgence of the group.
Because the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza started in October, Iraq and Syria have witnessed virtually every day tit-for-tat assaults between hardline Iran-backed armed teams and US forces stationed within the area.
A sequence of strikes by the USA in Iraq and Syria final week killed greater than 40 militants, the Pentagon mentioned.
On the time Iraq’s Common Mobilization Forces, a state safety drive together with Iran-backed teams, mentioned 16 of its members have been killed together with fighters and medics. The federal government had mentioned civilians have been amongst 16 useless.
In Syria, these strikes killed 23 individuals who had been guarding the focused areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which stories on warfare in Syria.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Timour Azhari and Ahmed Rasheed. Extra reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart in Washington; Enhancing by Angus MacSwan, Deepa Babington and Alistair Bell)
The US navy mentioned a strike on Wednesday killed a commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops.
Spokesperson Yahya Rasool mentioned in an announcement the US-led coalition “has develop into an element for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq within the cycle of battle”.
In Washington, the Pentagon mentioned it had notified the Iraqi authorities concerning the strike shortly after it had taken place.
Talks between the 2 nations started in January over the way forward for the coalition. However lower than 24 hours later three US troopers have been killed in an assault in Jordan that the USA mentioned was carried out by Iran-backed militant teams in Syria and Iraq and the talks have since paused.
Iraq and the USA will resume negotiations on the way forward for the US-led worldwide navy coalition within the nation on Feb. 11, the Iraqi navy spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
Iraqi Overseas Minister Fuad Hussein referred to as for the resumption of talks in a cellphone name with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday.
Any discussions over the way forward for the coalition are anticipated to take months if not longer, with the result unclear.
The US-led worldwide navy coalition in Iraq was set as much as combat Islamic State. The US has 2,500 troops in Iraq, advising and aiding native forces to forestall a resurgence of the group.
Because the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza started in October, Iraq and Syria have witnessed virtually every day tit-for-tat assaults between hardline Iran-backed armed teams and US forces stationed within the area.
A sequence of strikes by the USA in Iraq and Syria final week killed greater than 40 militants, the Pentagon mentioned.
On the time Iraq’s Common Mobilization Forces, a state safety drive together with Iran-backed teams, mentioned 16 of its members have been killed together with fighters and medics. The federal government had mentioned civilians have been amongst 16 useless.
In Syria, these strikes killed 23 individuals who had been guarding the focused areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which stories on warfare in Syria.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Timour Azhari and Ahmed Rasheed. Extra reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart in Washington; Enhancing by Angus MacSwan, Deepa Babington and Alistair Bell)
