Iraq labels US ‘factor of instability’ after three killed in drone attack
by Patrick Wintour in London and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in from on (#6JF0X)
Military says blatant assassination' of three members of Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Baghdad risks widening conflict
The US military presence in Iraq has become a factor for instability" and must be ended, the Iraqi military has said, as it responded angrily to a US drone strike on a car in Baghdad that killed three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia.
Yehia Rasool, the spokesperson for the commander of the military forces, accused the US of conducting a blatant assassination through an airstrike in the heart of a residential neighbourhood in the capital, Baghdad, showing no regard for civilian lives or international laws.
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