Iraq’s Badr parliamentary bloc led by Hadi Al-Amiri has demanded an end to the presence of American troops in the country after a woman was shot by a sniper working at the US Embassy in Baghdad. The bloc condemned the shooting incident in which the Iraqi woman was wounded in the abdomen when the sniper fired at the residential complex opposite the embassy.

“Based on national and humanitarian considerations, we call on the legislative and executive authorities to carry out their duties specified in the Constitution and the laws in force to ensure full national sovereignty, by ending all manifestations of the American military presence in Iraq, and providing guarantees to citizens that the incident will not be repeated,” added the MPs.
It also called on the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces and the parliament to form a committee to investigate the incident and announced full support and solidarity with the victim with regard to filing a criminal complaint against the perpetrator and trying him before Iraqi courts.