BAGHDAD, Jan 4 — Iraqi factions threatening to oust US troops, officials denouncing American “violations” and fears of a new Gulf war: a US strike has catapulted Iraq back to the tumultuous aftermath of the 2003 invasion. The precision drone strike outside Baghdad airport yesterday killed top...
Iranian guards hold a picture of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, during a protest against the assassination of Soleimani, in front of United Nation office in Tehran January 3, 2020. — Picture by WANA/Nazanin Tabatabaee via Reuters
It also opened the door to fierce criticism of the US, harkening back to the years following the American-led invasion that toppled ex-dictator Saddam Hussein. Around 5,200 American forces are deployed across Iraq to train and advise local troops targeting the remnants of the Islamic State group. Firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr swiftly reactivated his Mahdi Army, the notorious militia that fought US troops after the invasion but which was dissolved nearly a decade ago.
“Some think today’s hit clips Iran’s wings in Iraq. The opposite is more likely,” wrote Fanar Haddad of Singapore University’s Middle East Centre. “It means that the United States is engaged in a conflict with a component of the state-sanctioned Iraqi security forces,” he warned.
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