Iraq blasts Bahrain for supporting Israeli acts of aggression on Arab states
Tehran (KNA) - Iraq has lashed out at Bahrain for backing recent Israeli attacks on Arab countries, defending sacrifices made by a pro-government military force to counter terrorists.
In a statement released on Thursday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said it "rejects and condemns" Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah's Tweet about the Zionist enemy's targeting of Arab territories and Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha'abi, an effective force in the Baghdad government's anti-Daesh fight.
It also stressed that the PMU has stood by Iraqi armed forces "to defend our holy land and made great sacrifices to liberate the cities of Iraq, and to defeat Daesh terrorist gangs."
The Israeli regime is widely known to be behind a wave of air raids on positions of Iraq's Hashd al-Sha'abi in recent weeks. Reports say those air raids had the support of the Saudi regime and were launched from the areas controlled by US-backed Kurdish militants in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.
Source: PressTV