Government officials say a lack of safety and security measures and the use of highly flammable materials in the building helped the fire spread.

Preliminary information indicates that the building was made of highly flammable construction materials, contributing to its rapid collapse.

Mohajer-10 has an operational range of 2,000km and can fly for up to 24 hours, state media reports.

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in July and set it on fire over a planned Quran burning in Stockholm.

The scandal centres on suspected illegitimate cash withdrawals from the Commission between 2021 and 2022 totalling around US$2.5 billion, according to Iraqi officials.

An Iraqi government statement said Baghdad had also recalled its charge d'affaires in Sweden, and Iraq's state news agency reported that Iraq had suspended the working permit of Sweden's Ericsson on Iraqi soil.

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances urged Iraq, which has one of the highest numbers of missing people in the world, to seek victims and punish perpetrators.

Under the Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the right to declare war.

The oil-rich country remains traumatised from the years of war, occupation and bloody sectarian turmoil that followed the operation launched on March 20, 2003.

The same bill also revokes the 1991 AUMF that empowered Bush's father president George HW Bush to attack Iraq after Saddam's forces invaded Kuwait.

Iraqi General Qais al-Mohamadawi stresses that IS – now based in remote desert and mountain hideouts – has 'lost its ability to attract new recruits'.

His visit comes ahead of the March 20 anniversary of the ground invasion which ushered in two decades of bloodshed that Iraq is only now beginning to exit.