Major General Rasool announces: Iraq will take appropriate legal and diplomatic measures to preserve its rights, security and sovereignty

Spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool Abdullah, announced that Iraq will take appropriate legal and diplomatic measures to preserve its rights, security and sovereignty. Rasool said in a statement: Despite all efforts through political and diplomatic channels, and the efforts made by the Supreme Military Technical Committees, and reaching advanced stages of ending the file of the presence and work of the international coalition forces to fight ISIS in Iraq, and the transition to a bilateral security relationship based on mutual respect and affirming Iraq's sovereignty and security, the international coalition forces committed a heinous crime and blatant attack after targeting, with fighter jets coming from across the border, Iraqi sites affiliated with the security services in northern Babylon Governorate, at 22:45 on Tuesday, July 30, which led to the martyrdom of a number of members of our security forces in the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the wounding of a number of others without any justification for this reckless and irresponsible aggressive act. He explained that such serious and uncalculated violations would greatly undermine all efforts, mechanisms and contexts of joint security work to combat ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and would drag Iraq and the entire region into conflicts, wars and dangerous repercussions. Therefore, we hold the international coalition forces fully responsible for these repercussions after they carried out this brutal aggression. He stressed that the international coalition to combat ISIS is present and operating in Iraq within a specific mandate, for a specific mission and an agreed upon common enemy, and that these attacks represent a serious breach of this mission and mandate. Iraq will take appropriate legal and diplomatic measures to preserve its rights and everything that would confirm its security and sovereignty over its lands and protect them, and what would ensure that the rights of the heroic martyrs are taken, and those res ponsible for the attack are held accountable. Source: National Iraqi News Agency