Iraq to summon US, UK envoys over fatal airstrikes

BAGHDAD

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it would summon the ambassadors of the U.S. and U.K. following airstrikes by American warplanes that left six people dead.

“Foreign Minister [Mohamed Ali al-Hakim] ordered to summon the ambassadors of the United States and Britain to Baghdad,” spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf told reporters. 

President Barham Salih condemned the killing of three Iraqi soldiers, two police officers and one civilian in a U.S. raid on the central Babil province.

In a statement, Salih denounced the “foreign bombing that targeted many locations inside the territory of Iraq and led to the martyrdom and

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