{"id":65093,"date":"2020-03-17T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=65093"},"modified":"2020-03-17T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:09:25","slug":"us-to-act-in-self-defense-against-attacks-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/us-to-act-in-self-defense-against-attacks-pompeo\/","title":{"rendered":"US to act in self-defense against attacks: Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>U.S. will not tolerate attacks and threats to American lives and take actions in self-defense, after a recent attack on Camp Taji military base in Iraq, said State Secretary Mike Pompeo on Monday.<\/h2>\n<p>His remarks came during a Sunday phone call with Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi, according to a statement by State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo told al-Mahdi that &#8220;the groups responsible for these attacks must be held accountable,&#8221; adding the U.S. &#8220;will not tolerate attacks and threats to American lives and will take additional action as necessary in self-defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The top diplomat also reiterated the Iraqi government &#8220;must defend&#8221; the coalition personnel supporting the Iraqi government\u2019s efforts to defeat Daesh\/ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>The Camp Taji, which hosts anti-Daesh coalition and NATO&#8217;s Iraq Mission personnel, were hit by rockets on Wednesday. The attack left two American troops and one British serviceman dead, while 14 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the U.S. conducted strikes against pro-Iranian militia Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah&#8217;s weapons storage sites in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. will not tolerate attacks and threats to American lives and take actions in self-defense, after a recent attack on Camp Taji military base in Iraq, said State Secretary Mike Pompeo on Monday. His remarks came during a Sunday phone call with Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi, according to a statement by State Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,101],"tags":[2160,78122,6022],"class_list":["post-65093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","tag-iraq","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}