Iraq: US strikes in Iraq 'has become a factor for instability'

Repeated US strikes against armed groups in Iraq are pushing the government to end the mission of the US-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's military spokesman, Yahya Rasool, said on Thursday.

The US military said a strike on Wednesday killed a commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops.

Rasool said in a statement that the US-led coalition "has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict".