Senior Iraqi leaders say the US was behind the Thursday raid on the headquarters of Kata'ib Hezbollah, which raised serious questions about Iraq's direction under the new government. 

Iraqi lawmakers have already approved a bill demanding the withdrawal.

Iraq’s President Barham Salih and his US counterpart Donald Trump have discussed reducing the American troop presence in the war-battered country.

Iraqi PM Abdul-Mahdi and senior Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned of grave consequences following US assassination of General Soleimani and Hashd al-Sha’abi deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

The US has slapped sanctions on three leaders of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, a group that has cooperated with the national army in counter-terrorism operations.

The leader the Iraqi Asaib Ahl al-Haq group says Washington and Tel Aviv regimes are members of "a third party" that has been behind many deaths during the recent unrest.  

The leader of a powerful Iraqi militia group says the US is supporting Daesh in order to justify the presence of American troops in Iraq.