Iraq has summoned Washington’s envoy to Baghdad to protest an air strike on a military base on Wednesday that killed seven Iraqi soldiers and injured 15 others — an assault the prime minister called “a heinous crime”.
The attack on the Habbaniya base in Iraq’s western Anbar province struck a military medical clinic and an engineering unit, the country’s defence ministry said, calling it a violation of international law.
We “will not remain silent”, the prime minister’s office said. “We are confronting a fully-fledged crime that violates international law . . . and which harms the relationship between the peoples of Iraq and the United States.”