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US condemns attack on Kuwaiti consulate in Iraq
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A group of Iraqi protesters storms the Kuwaiti Consulate and removes the Kuwaiti national flag from the building, in Basra, Iraq, April 8, 2026. (AP/Ali Rahim)
The United States condemns an April 7 attack on the Kuwaiti consulate in Basrah, Iraq, the State Department says in a post on X.
The US calls on the Iraqi government to “hold accountable and dismantle the Iraqi terrorist groups aligned with Iran that conducted this attack,” the department’s bureau for Near Eastern Affairs says.
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