Iraq’s Parliament Calls on Government to Remove International Coalition Troops

The Security and Defense Committee of the Iraqi Parliament has urged the government to urgently sign an agreement for the withdrawal of international coalition forces from Iraq. This was stated in a declaration issued by the parliamentary committee.

“Such attacks (referring to U.S. strikes in response to an assault on its military base in Jordan, targeting Iranian-linked sites in Syria and Iraq) violate Iraq’s sovereignty, and their recurrence weakens cooperation in security between Iraq and the United States, which is part of a joint military collaboration agreement that needs to be reviewed,” the statement read.

The parliamentary committee calls on the Iraqi government to take responsibility for protecting members of one branch of the Iraqi armed forces, namely the “Popular Mobilization,” by officially filing a complaint with the UN Security Council and expediting the process of reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of U.S. and international coalition forces from Iraq.

Earlier, the United States announced that, in response to attacks on its military base in Jordan, it had struck more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its affiliated forces. According to the U.S. military, the targets hit by American aircraft included command centers, intelligence hubs, missile and drone storage facilities, as well as other sites involved in the supply chains of munitions for the IRGC and allied forces in Iraq and Syria.