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Iraq calls Saudi-US attacks a 'flagrant violation of sovereignty'

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Iraq's National Security Council has condemned Wednesday's Saudi-US strikes against the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), which killed at least 20 members of the Iraqi paramilitary group. The council meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, called the attacks on PMF bases in seven Iraqi provinces "a flagrant violation of Iraq's sovereignty and the sanctity of its lands." The joint Saudi-US attacks, from the Iraqi cities of Kirkuk in the north to Basra in the south, killed at least 20 PMF members and at least four advisers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to Iranian and Iraqi media reports. In a statement, the Iran-aligned Iraqi paramilitary group Kataib Hezbollah said it would give the Iraqi government until August 6 to demonstrate it can defend Iraq's sovereignty. The group said an immediate response to the US-Saudi attack is "inevitable."