Faleh al-Fayyaz, the leader of the Hashd Al-Sha’abi group, during the speech at the Fatih ceremony, the militants were killed in the attacks of the United States.
Faleh al-Fayyaz, the leader of the Hashd al-Shaabi coalition, which is a supporter of Iran, will lead the United States to withdraw from Iraq on Sunday, February 4 (15).
Al-Fayyaz, at the funeral ceremony for members of the Hashd al-Shaabi group who were killed in US attacks, claimed that the United States targeted “offices, a hospital connected to the Hashd al-Shaabi group and forces whose duty was to protect the borders.” And he warned that “targeting Hashd al-Shaabi is playing with fire”.
In response to the attack on a military base in Jordan, which resulted in the death of three American soldiers, the United States on Friday targeted groups supported by Iran.
The Hashd al-Shaabi militias, which were supported by Iran and have now been integrated into the Iraqi armed forces, have reported the death of at least 16 and the wounding of 36 members of the group in the attacks of the United States on the positions of the group on Friday.
Al-Fayyaz said that if the Prime Minister encourages Iraq to do everything he can to defend the “honor and sovereignty of Iraq”, he will say that this is only possible with the “withdrawal of all coalition forces from Iraq”.
The United States-led coalition forces were created in 2014 to fight the Islamic State, or Daesh, which had seized parts of Iraq and Syria. Hashd al-Shaabi militia also played a role in the defeat of ISIS fighters in Iraq.
As part of the international coalition fighting ISIS, about 2,500 American troops are currently stationed in Iraq and another 900 American troops are stationed in Syria.
The tension between the government of the United States and the government of Iraq has deepened in the last few months after Washington carried out attacks on the positions of groups supported by Iran in Iraq in response to several military attacks led by the United States.
After the start of the war between Hamas and Israel on the 7th of October last year, attacks by Iran-backed groups on American forces stationed in the Middle East have increased, and the American military has also been responding to these attacks. have arranged
Following repeated requests by the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, to determine the timing of the withdrawal of the United States-led coalition forces from Iraq, Washington and Baghdad began negotiations on the future of these forces in Iraq at the end of last month.