Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said on Thursday that Iraq wants an immediate pullout the US-led foreign forces from his country due to their destabilizing activities.

The Iraqi prime minister made the demand during a televised event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“(The) end of the US-led coalition was a necessity for the security and stability of Iraq,” Sudani said, Press TV reported.

He added it was necessary to “immediately begin a dialogue, to reach an understanding and a timetable regarding the end of the mission of international advisers.”

Iraq’s Islamic Resistance, an umbrella group of anti-US armed groups in the country, has conducted dozens of attacks on US bases in support of Gaza’s resistance.

According to the Pentagon, US military forces have come under attack at least 118 times in Iraq and Syria since the Israeli onslaught on Gaza began last October.

The US maintains some 2,500 troops in Iraq under the pretext of fighting the Daesh terrorist group.

Longstanding calls by Iraqi factions for the US-led coalition’s departure have gained steam in the wake of a series of US strikes on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which are part of Iraq’s security forces.

Iraq has condemned the US strikes, not least a recent attack against a senior PMU commander in the heart of Baghdad.

Senior officials in Baghdad say only an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip would stop the risk of a regional escalation.

Iraq says Israel’s mass killing and displacement of the Palestinians is a “textbook example of genocide”.