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U.S. Walks Back Assertion It Gave Iraq Advance Warning of Air Strikes

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After claiming last week that they’d issued a heads-up that retaliatory strikes were incoming, the U.S. government now says that they only informed Iraq after the fact.

Shannon Vavra 

National Security Reporter

AJ McDougall 

Breaking News Reporter

A view of destruction after the US warplanes carried out an airstrike on the headquarters of Hashd al-Shaabi in Al-Qa'im city of Anbar, Iraq
Hashd al-Shaabi Media Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images
Shannon Vavra

Shannon Vavra

National Security Reporter

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AJ McDougall

AJ McDougall

Breaking News Reporter

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