Sixteen people were killed, among them civilians, and 25 injured in overnight US airstrikes on pro-Iran targets in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office says.
In a statement, it condemns the strikes as a “new aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty” and denies that they were coordinated by the Baghdad government beforehand with Washington, calling such assertions “lies.”
The presence of the US-led military coalition in the region “has become a reason for threatening security and stability in Iraq and a justification for involving Iraq in regional and international conflicts,” the statement adds.
The US military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan last weekend.
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