Baghdad, 26 Dec (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Prime Minister's Information Office issued a statement on 26 December condemning the US military's attack on the facilities of armed groups in Iraq on the same day, and calling the military operation a clear hostile act.
The statement said that as a result of the military operation, one member of the Iraqi security forces was killed and 18 others, including civilians, were injured. The statement said that this military action is not in the common interests of security and stability of all parties, runs counter to the declared will of the United States to "strengthen the bilateral relationship between the United States and Iran," and will further complicate the completion of the withdrawal of the international coalition.
An unnamed source told Xinhua that the US military carried out an attack on the military facilities of the Iraqi militia "Popular Mobilization Group" in Iraq's Babylon and Wasit provinces in the early morning of the same day, resulting in ** personnel.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a statement saying that the U.S. military carried out precision strikes on three facilities in Iraq on the 26th. The operation was in response to a series of recent attacks by Iranian-backed militant groups against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria.
On the 25th, the Iraqi militia "Islamic Resistance Group" used drones to attack a military base with military advisers from the international coalition near Erbil Airport in the Iraqi Kurdish Autonomous Region (Kurdistan Region), resulting in injuries and affecting flights in and out of the airport.