In a Thursday evening phone call, which Mr. Abdul Mahdis office said Mr. Pompeo had initiated, the Iraqi prime minister said he had objected to dual violations of his countrys sovereignty referring to both the American drone strike of Jan. 3 on a convoy outside Baghdad International Airport, whe
Ortagus said Thursday that Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Abdul Mahdi had spoken by telephone. In a brief summary of the call, she said Mr. Pompeo reiterated the United States condemnation of the Iranian regimes launch of ballistic missiles into two sites on Wednesday in Iraq that host Iraqi, American and c
nonbinding, and nearly half of the members of the Iraqi Parliament primarily those representing ethnic Kurdish and Sunni Muslim minorities did not vote. But there was no doubt of Mr. Abdul Mahdis support for the measure, because he quickly drafted a bill calling for the troops withdrawal.
