Featuring: Joe Biden
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
When: 22 Apr 2021
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Iraq’s government has condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Iraqi military positions that it said killed one serviceman and wounded 18 other people, calling them a clear hostile act.
The government condemned the U.S. strikes as an unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty, while stressing that attacks by armed groups against military bases hosting U.S-led coalition advisers are hostile acts and violate Iraqi sovereignty.
Two Iraqi security sources said overnight U.S. airstrikes targeted headquarters for Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah in the Iraqi city of Hilla south of Baghdad, killing one fighter from Kataib Hezbollah and injuring 16 others.
The United States has carried out retaliatory air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a one-way drone attack earlier in the day by Iran-aligned militants that left one U.S. service member in critical condition and wounded two others.
The United States has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq on a mission it says aims to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swaths of both countries before being defeated.
