{"id":58282,"date":"2024-02-10T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/strikes-could-lead-to-end-of-us-led-mission-iraq-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:51:06","slug":"strikes-could-lead-to-end-of-us-led-mission-iraq-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/strikes-could-lead-to-end-of-us-led-mission-iraq-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes could lead to end of US-led mission, Iraq warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>BAGHDAD: Iraq on Thursday condemned a US air strike that killed a senior commander from a pro-Iran armed group accused of having been involved in attacks on American troops in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The US attack on Wednesday came after a wave of strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria last week following the killing of three American troops in neighbouring Jordan on Jan 28.<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the commander killed on Wednesday was targeted \u201cin response to the attacks on US service members\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The strike killed \u201ca Kataeb Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on US forces in the region,\u201d according to CENTCOM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>Iran says US \u2018adventurism a threat to regional, international peace\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces\u2019 safety,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi authorities slammed the strike as a \u201cblatant assassination\u201d in a residential neighbourhood of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international coalition is completely overstepping the reasons and objectives for which it is present on our territory,\u201d said Yehia Rasool, the military spokesman for Iraq\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis path pushes the Iraqi government more than ever before to end the coalition\u2019s mission which has become a factor of instability for Iraq,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to the US-led international military alliance formed in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group \u2014 the year the militant group overran nearly a third of Iraq\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Kataeb Hezbollah group \u2014 which announced it was suspending its attacks on US forces after the deadly Jordan attack \u2014 said one of its commanders had been killed, identifying him as Abu Baqr al-Saadi. The commander, whose funeral began on Thursday afternoon, was responsible for \u201cmilitary affairs\u201d in Syria, an official from the group told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of mainly pro-Iran paramilitaries \u2014 of which Kataeb Hezbollah is part \u2014 now integrated into Iraq\u2019s regular security forces, also confirmed Saadi\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>An interior ministry official said a total of three people \u2014 two Kataeb Hezbollah leaders and their driver \u2014 had died in the strike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Red lines\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest US strike sparked widespread condemnation in Iraq, with a pro-Iran parliamentary coalition dubbing it an attack on \u201cIraqi sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1812586\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Washington has \u201ccrossed all red lines by targeting regular forces and men who contributed to defeating Islamic State terrorism,\u201d said the Coordination Fram\u00adework, an alliance of pro-Iran parties that includes the Hashed al-Shaabi.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s pro-Iran Al-Nujaba movement in a statement promised a \u201ctargeted retaliation\u201d, saying that \u201cthese crimes will not go unpunished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Iran joined in the condemnation on Thursday, with Nasser Kanani, spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, calling the strike an act of \u201cadventurism\u201d that was \u201ca threat to regional and international peace and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US and allied troops have been targeted more than 165 times in the Middle East during the past four months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, February 9th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Iraq on Thursday condemned a US air strike that killed a senior commander from a pro-Iran armed group accused of having been involved in attacks on American troops in the region. The US attack on Wednesday came after a wave of strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria last week following the killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/09080611a4b976d.png?r=080743","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}