[HIGHLIGHTS] Washington: Iraq did not receive notification of the raids

U.S. State Department says it did not provide prior notification to Iraq before the strikes it launched last Friday on militant sites inside Iraqi territory.

Spokesman Vedant Patel said that Iraq knew about the US strikes as soon as they occurred. The United States vowed to launch other strikes in the region after the strikes targeted 85 targets - some of them belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - in Iraq and Syria, resulting in the death and injury of dozens. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council - after a request from Russia - is examining the strikes on both Syria and Iraq.