Iraq's Shiite references on Friday rejected any kind of infringement of the country's sovereignty.

In Friday's sermons, representative of the Shiite Supreme Religious Authority Ahmed al Safi said that no country has the right to send its troops to Iraq without Baghdad's approval.

The remarks were made against the presence of Turkish troops in the country's north, at a military base near the Daesh-held city of Mosul.

Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show "no tolerance" of any infringement of the country's sovereignty, after Turkey deployed heavily armed troops to northern Iraq.

Sources: MENA