ISLAMABAD – Israel has used American airbases in Iraq to launch its recentdrone attacks inside the Iraqi territory.

Iraqi commander, while warning said that the aggression will be retaliatedif repeated.

Ali al-Yasseri, the commander of the Iraqi resistance group Sarayaal-Khorasani, says all Israeli attacks on Iraq were indirect, and werelaunched from US bases inside Iraq.

“The drones flying in the Iraqi airspace had taken off from the US bases,”he told Al Alam News Network.

The Iraqi commander said the resistance forces have in the past defeatedthe Israelis and are capable of doing so again thanks to their increasedpower today.

“The Hashd al-Shaabi today enjoys a very great power to create a newvictory for Iraq,” he said.

Iraq’s military said on August 26 it had launched an investigation into anIsraeli strike that killed two Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters near the town ofal-Qa’im close to the country’s western border with Syria.