Bahrain summons Iraqi ambassador over drone attacks

MANAMA: Bahrain on Monday summoned the Iraqi ambassador over drone attacks it says were launched from the country toward the kingdom and other Gulf nations despite the US-Iran ceasefire.
Bahrain was the latest Gulf state to protest against the attacks coming from Iraq, after Saudi Arabia summoned the Iraqi envoy a day earlier.
Bahrain delivered a formal complaint and “summoned the charge d’affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Mr.Ahmed Ismail Al-Kurwi,” the official BNA agency said in a statement.
The kingdom conveyed its “strong condemnation and denunciation of the continued attacks by drones launched from Iraqi territory against the Kingdom and several other Gulf Cooperation Council countries,” the statement said.
It urged Baghdad to address “these threats and attacks urgently and responsibly.”
Along with the Gulf states, Iraq was dragged into the war between the United States, Israel and Iran, with strikes repeatedly targeting both US interests — especially the embassy in Baghdad — and pro-Iran groups in the country.
During the fighting, pro-Iran armed groups claimed to have launched daily attacks on “enemy bases” in Iraq and the wider region, but said they were suspending their actions after the temporary ceasefire was announced.
Last month several Gulf countries and Jordan demanded in a joint statement that Baghdad act immediately to stop attacks from its territory by armed pro-Iran groups.
The statement was signed by Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.