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Popular Mobilisation Forces fighters carry flag-draped mock coffins of slain fighters who were killed by US airstrikes on the Iraq-Syrian border, during a symbolic funeral in Baghdad, Iraq
IRAQ is “studying all legal options” after a United States air strike killed a child on Monday in an attack that has been condemned by regional leaders as a violation of sovereignty and a potential war crime.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi convened an emergency security meeting the day after the attack, which he said was a “blatant and unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty and Iraqi national security.
“Iraq reiterates its refusal to be an arena for settling scores,” he added in a statement, urging all sides to avoid any further escalation.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
