Iraq’s Nujaba undeterred by Baghdad’s renewed push for US withdrawal
A major Iraqi resistance groups says it will continue attacks on US positions in the Arab country and in the wider region despite a renewed attempt by the government to end the mission of US occupation forces in Iraq.
The Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba said on Saturday that it will not pay any attention to US claims that it will withdraw its forces from Iraq based on a timing discussed with the government in Baghdad last year.
Nujaba has contributed to attacks by resistance forces in Iraq on US positions in the country, in neighboring Syria, as well as to attacks on Israeli targets in areas in Occupied Palestine, since the Israeli regime launched a military aggression against Palestinians in Gaza under direct support from the United States in early October.
“We will continue the military operation in response to American-Zionist aggression against Gaza until final victory is reached and up to the point where the last occupying soldier is expelled from our land,” said the group in a statement.
It came after the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said it had sponsored “the commencement of the first round of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the United States of America to end the mission of the Coalition in Iraq.”
Both Iraq and the US announced last year that they had started talks on withdrawal of a US-led coalition of troops present in the country since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Calls for expulsion of US forces from Iraq increased in 2020 after Washington ordered the assassination of Iranian anti-terror Commander Lt. General Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi and Iranian comrades in an airstrike in Baghdad.
The Iraqi resistance forces have launched attacks on US positions almost on a daily basis since the conflict began in Gaza.
The attacks are part of a wider regional campaign to force the US to end its support for Israel’s hostilities in Gaza.
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