AN AMERICAN OFFICIAL SETS A CONDITION FOR STOPPING STRIKES IN IRAQ
Today, Friday (February 9, 2024), an American official set a condition for stopping American air strikes in Iraq.
Al Jazeera quoted an American military official as saying, followed by Baghdad Today, “We made it clear to the Iraqi government that we will not launch strikes if the attacks on our forces stop.”
He added, “We strongly urge the Iraqi government to take action against (the armed factions).”
It is noteworthy that the strike carried out by the United States in Iraq in the middle of this week, which resulted in the assassination of Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a prominent leader in the Hezbollah Brigades , created more tension in relations between Washington and Baghdad, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
On Wednesday, US Central Command said that Al-Saadi “was responsible for direct planning and participation in attacks on American forces in the region,” it said.
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, said in a statement yesterday that the American strikes “threaten civil peace and violate Iraqi sovereignty.”
He added, “This path pushes the Iraqi government more than ever before to end the mission of this coalition, which has become a factor of instability for Iraq and threatens to drag Iraq into the circle of regional conflict.”
The United States deploys about 2,500 soldiers in Iraq and 900 in neighboring Syria as part of the international coalition established in 2014 to combat ISIS.
Yesterday, Baghdad announced the resumption of talks with the United States, next Sunday, with the aim of discussing the future of the international coalition in the country.
These talks, which aim, according to Baghdad, to “end the coalition’s mission” in Iraq, were suspended in late January after the attack that killed three American soldiers in Jordan.
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