PNN – The US State Department announced that the country did not inform the Baghdad government before the attacks on targets inside Iraq on Saturday morning, but immediately after the attacks.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the US State Department announced on Monday evening that the country did not inform the Baghdad government before the attacks on targets inside Iraqi territory on Saturday morning, but it did inform it immediately after the attacks.
In the morning of Saturday, the terrorist organization CENTCOM announced in a statement that in response to the death of 3 American soldiers in the attack of the resistance groups on the Burj-22 base on the border of Syria and Jordan, it carried out attacks on the positions of the resistance groups in Iraq and Syria and more It has targeted 85 points.
In response to these attacks, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a protest note to the charge d’affaires of the country’s embassy and emphasized: This note includes Iraq’s opposition to the US attacks and its condemnation.
Baghdad also said that it will do its best to defend its territory and its citizens and its security forces.
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On the other hand, the American newspaper Washington Post reported on Monday, quoting an official in the US State Department, that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is currently on a trip to the countries of the region, will emphasize during his meetings that the US does not seek to escalate the situation in the region.
The US official added that Blinken would announce that the recent US attacks on targets in Syria and Iraq were only a reaction and not an escalation.
Meanwhile, an American official announced on Monday that after the attacks carried out by the Pentagon in Iraq and Syria on Saturday morning, American forces in Syria have been attacked three times.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, he added: “The Euphrates base in Syria was attacked twice on Saturday and Monday, and there were no casualties in these attacks.”
This American official said: “The base near the Al-Omar oil field was also attacked with a drone on Sunday, but there were no casualties among the American forces.”
He went on to say: “American forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 169 times since October 7th.”