News - Middle East: Iraq’s Islamic Resistance, an umbrella group of anti-terror forces, says this week's attack on the US-occupied Ain al-Assad Airbase in western Iraq marks a ”new phase of escalation against American bases.”

Lebanon’s al-Akhbar newspaper carried the report on Wednesday, citing sources within the resistance’s Coordination Committee as making the remarks in connection with the rocket attack that had targeted the outpost two days earlier, injuring several American troopers.

The attack, the sources added, had come in response to the atrocities that have been perpetrated by the Israeli regime and its supporters, including the United States.

Enumerating some of the crimes, they cited the regime’s underway war of genocide against the Gaza Strip. More than 39,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the brutal military onslaught that is being carried out with complete political, military, and intelligence support on the part of the US.

They also pointed to Tel Aviv’s recent assassination of senior resistance figures in Lebanon and Iran, which experts assert, was carried out with certain American approval and possible intelligence assistance.

The promise of escalation by the Iraqi resistance came a day after the country’s Federal Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that had been filed to facilitate the American forces’ withdrawal.

The lawsuit had been filed by two Iraqi lawyers, who had demanded that the court annul an agreement that has been made by Sudani and President Abdul Latif Rashid to enable prolongation of the forces’ presence on the Iraqi soil.