CAIRO, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit expressed on Sunday his growing concern over the recent successive developments in Iraq, the Cairo-based, pan-Arab body said in a statement.
"The region is in a dire need of calm not escalation, and of settling conflicts not igniting and sustaining them," said the AL statement.
The statement came a couple of days after a U.S. drone attack at Baghdad airport killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi militia leader.
"The developments in recent days show the size of foreign interventions in Arab affairs and their high political, security and economic costs," the AL statement said.
Earlier on Sunday, the Iraqi parliament passed a resolution requiring the government to end the presence of foreign forces in Iraq and prevent them from using Iraqi airspace and water.
