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Iraq ‘studying all legal options’ after US air strike kills child
Popular Mobilisation Forces fighters carry flag-draped mock coffins of slain fighters who were killed by US airstrikes on the Iraq-Syrian border, during a symbolic funeral in Baghdad, Iraq

IRAQ is “studying all legal options” after a United States air strike killed a child on Monday in an attack that has been condemned by regional leaders as a violation of sovereignty and a potential war crime.

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi convened an emergency security meeting the day after the attack, which he said was a “blatant and unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty and Iraqi national security.

“Iraq reiterates its refusal to be an arena for settling scores,” he added in a statement, urging all sides to avoid any further escalation. 

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