* The U.S military came under attcak from from lraq based Kataib Hezbollah injuring three soldiers
* The U.S military said that they were attacked using one way attack drones.
* lraq responded saying the attack could seriously damage the fragile relations between the two countries.
The U.S military carried out air strikes on 3 facilitates used by lraq based Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups injuring three soldiers leaving one in very critical condition.The Iranian barked militant group earlier claimed claimed credit for using a one-way attack drone to target the U.S forces on Erbil Air base on a Monday morning. The American government stressed that such attacks could harm relations between the countries since the Iraqis had carried out constructive damage that does not serve the long term common interests.
Kataib Hezbollah is a shia militant group that poses threat to the U.S personnel both in lraq and Syria according to the Director of National Intelligence who said that the militant group aims at expelling them from there and setup and lraqi aligned government. ln accordance to the happening, the U.S Defence Secretary Lloyd James Austen briefed the president one afternoon of which several options were presented to the president but he ordered for strikes and the strikes were carried out in response to the Ebil attack against the U.S forces in lraq and Syria.
A security serviceman was injured and was a member of Hash Al- Shaala also known as the Popular Mobilisation Unit, a predominantly Shia paramilitary group which came into recognition in 2016 after the Iraqi parliament passed a bill recognising shia militia fighters as a government entity operating alongside the Iraqi military but these are widely considered by the U.S as terrorists who are responsible for the attacks on U.S forces in lraq and Syria. With 18 civilians killed on the attack, the lraqi Prime minister referred to the hostile acts as those that infringe upon's Iraq's sovereignity and are deemed unacceptable under any circumstances.
