The Iraqi government, on Thursday, asserted that continued US airstrikes targeting Iraqi security forces could compel them to terminate the US-led coalition’s mission within the nation. Concurrently, the Iraqi parliament plans to convene on Saturday to vote on a decisive resolution mandating the expulsion of all foreign military forces from the country.
The breakthroughs came after a U. S. drone strike on Wednesday night killed Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a senior commander of Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah in Baghdad.
“U. S. forces committed blatant murder through an airstrike in the center of a residential community in the capital, Baghdad, with no regard for civilian lives or foreign laws,” said Yahya Rasool, a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Soudani’s army. said in a statement on Thursday. This trajectory forces the Iraqi government more than ever to end the coalition’s mission, which has become unstable and threatens to drag Iraq into the cycle of conflict. “
He threatened that the Iraqi armed forces “cannot forget their constitutional tasks and responsibilities, which require safeguarding the security of Iraqis and Iraqi territory against all threats. “
The U. S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) showed the attack in a statement, calling it a defensive measure in reaction to attacks on U. S. service members.
According to CENTCOM, the airstrike “killed a Kataib Hezbollah commander guilty of making direct plans and engaging in attacks opposed to U. S. forces in the region. The U. S. has pledged to continue its actions against anyone who “threatens the security of our forces. “
According to Iraqi media, al-Saadi was in command of Kataib Hezbollah’s missile and logistics unit.
After the assassination, the telegram channels of the pro-Iranian militias invited the population to use a typhoon attack on the U. S. embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone. On Thursday night, U. S. military helicopters flew over the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Iraqi national security adviser Qasim al-Aeraji, while attending al-Saadi’s funeral, told Iraqi state media that the Iraqi government had to finish the U. S. -led coalition’s project in Iraq.
They want the Iraqi government to continue its efforts to end the global coalition against ISIS in Iraq.
Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have carried out numerous attacks against U. S. forces in Iraq and Syria due to Washington’s unwavering attitude toward Tel Aviv in their attack. Brutally opposed to the enclave.
American and allied troops have been attacked more than 165 times in the Middle East since mid-October in a crusade by Iranian-backed armed teams angered by the United States over Israel in the Gaza war.
The attack came days after three Americans were killed in a drone strike on a U. S. base in northeastern Jordan owned by Washington through the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a ghost call for Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria.
The U. S. and Iraq began negotiations on the long-term presence of U. S. -led troops in January, following a request from the Iraqi prime minister for a timetable for their withdrawal.