A family member mourns over the coffin of Ahmed Al-Jubouri, a member of Iraq's Ministry of Defense who was killed at the Habbaniyah military base following an aerial attack, during his funeral at the Imam Ali Shrine in the southern city of Najaf on March 26, 2026. (Credit: Qassem al-Kaabi / AFP)
A U.S. State Department spokesperson denied on Thursday claims that the United States had targeted Iraqi security forces, a day after a military clinic was struck in the country's west, leaving seven dead.
"Any claims that the United States has targeted Iraqi Security Forces are categorically false, incompatible with the U.S.-Iraq partnership, and offensive to the long years of friendship and cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces," the spokesperson told AFP.
The Iraqi authorities have not directly accused the U.S. of the strike that hit western Iraq earlier this week. On Wednesday, Baghdad said the incident was "undermining the ties between the peoples of Iraq and the United States." Previously they said they would summon the country's charge d'affaires over a different attack in the same area, which targeted a paramilitary group.
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