Sixteen people were killed and 25 injured, civilians among them, in overnight U.S. airstrikes on pro-Iran targets in Iraq, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office said on Saturday.
In a statement, it condemned the strikes as a “new aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty.”
The strikes are the first in a multi-tiered response by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to the drone attack by Iran-backed militants that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last Sunday, and more U.S. military operations are expected in the coming days.
The U.S. military launched an air assault Friday on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and
