The attacks came as the US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said the US will not support institutions plagued by sectarian agendas, and urged the country's political factions to come together.
Mr Khalilzad told a recent press conference in Baghdad that the United States is investing billions of dollars in Iraq's new police and army forces and would not tolerate those units having sectarian agendas.
The Afghan-born envoy said that if Iraqi officials cannot control the sectarian agendas within their government, the country “faces the risk of warlordism that Afghanistan went through for a period”.
Also on February 20, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials on the formation of a new Iraqi government, which major political factions have failed to agree on.
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