Pro-Iran Groups in Iraq Demand US Troops Leave, Warn of Regional Escalation

Accusing US President Donald Trump of having “authorised” the major Israeli attack on Iran on Friday, Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah said in a statement that “the American forces in Iraq have enabled this aggression by opening the Iraqi airspace to Zionist aircraft.” To stop Iraq from becoming “a battlefield,” Kataeb Hezbollah said that the government in Baghdad “must urgently remove these hostile foreign forces from the country in order to avoid additional wars in the region.” (Read more at Defense Post)