BAGHDAD: Iraq on Tuesday denounced US air strikes in the country as a “hostile act” after the Pentagon said it had targeted three sites used by pro-Iran forces after coming under fire.
The government said the strikes that killed one member of the security forces and wounded 24 other people, including civilians, were an “unacceptable attack on Iraqi sovereignty” that damaged bilateral relations.
An Iraqi interior ministry official said the strikes targeted a Hashed Al-Shaabi site in the central city of Hilla, one of two locations targeted in Babylon province.
One person was killed and 20 wounded, while four others were wounded in another strike in the southern province of Wassit, the official said. Two security sources in Babylon and Wassit provinces gave the same information.
Hours earlier the United States said its forces had carried out strikes on three sites used by pro-Iran groups in Iraq in response to a series of attacks on US personnel.
US forces have repeatedly targeted sites used by Iran and its proxy forces in Iraq and Syria in response to dozens of attacks on American and allied forces in the region since the October 7 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
