He stressed that the Americans did not warn Baghdad about the attack on Iraqi security forces.

“The official representative in the United States apologized in connection with this situation,” RIA Novosti quotes Hussein as saying on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomatic Forum (ADF).

On February 3, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said that US airstrikes in western Iraq had killed at least 16 people, including civilians.

After this, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires of the US Embassy in Baghdad, and he was given a note of protest in connection with the act of aggression against Iraqi civilian and military targets.