Iraqi popular forces give last ultimatum to US Army

Spokesman and a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces, Jafar al-Hosseini, warned that the possibility of breaking out clashes between popular forces and the US military men deployed in the Arab country is becoming greater than before.

"Clashes may break out with the Americans at any time, and this time no mediation will help the Americans and it is not like the past," al-Hosseini was quoted by the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news channel as saying on Tuesday.

He described the US military deployment in Iraq as occupation, and said, "It was the Americans who brought the terrorist group of Daesh to Iraq to have a pretext to return."

Al-Hosseini said that the weapons and equipment seized from the Daesh terrorists in the town of Tikrit in Iraq were the ones used merely by the American forces.

In relevant remarks last September, al-Hosseini had warned the US to withdraw its military men from Iraq once the Daesh is fully defeated in the country.

EA