The Pentagon’s statement did not mention the reduction in the number of US troops in Iraq

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the US Ministry of Defense did not mention the gradual reduction of international coalition forces in the territory of this neighboring country of Iran in the statement it published about the agreement with Iraq.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced today (5th of February) with Sadro an agreement with the US government after six months of negotiations with this country to gradually reduce the forces of the anti-ISIS coalition and said that according to this The agreement of the “fight against ISIS” mission, which this coalition has defined for itself, ends. that the Iraqi government, in line with the implementation of its national obligations and in order to increase the capacity and efficiency of the Iraqi forces, after 6 months of negotiations with the American government, which began in August 2023, with this country on the formation of the High Military Committee (HMC) to assess the threat and The threat of ISIS and the duration of the presence of the advisors of the international coalition led by the United States have been agreed upon. They will start the High Military Committee (HMC) in the coming days. This action will be the beginning of the process that the two sides committed to during the joint dialogue on security cooperation between the United States and Iraq on August 7-8, 2023.

Iraq, it has been stated that the two sides have reached an agreement with the United States of America on the gradual reduction of the number of “international coalition advisors” and the end of the “mission to combat ISIS”. It will make it possible to move towards a “stable and bilateral security partnership” between the two sides.

The statement states: “HMC is transitioning to a stable, bilateral security partnership between the United States and Iraq, building on Baghdad’s successes in counter-ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria with the cooperation of US forces. The coalition will make it possible.”

At the end of this statement, it is stated: “The United States and Iraq have developed a deep relationship during the last ten years when Baghdad invited Washington to fight against ISIS have benefited constructively. The start of HMC represents a development in the bilateral relationship between Iraq and the United States under the Strategic Framework Agreement and shows our commitment to deepening this security cooperation to promote stability inside Iraq and the region.

The number of non-American soldiers in Iraq reaches 2,400 people, who have entered the country on behalf of other countries under the name of the anti-terrorism coalition, which until now has spoken openly about them. It has not happened.

Baghdad and Washington on July 26, agreed that the US combat forces will leave Iraq by the end of this year, and only a number of US forces will be there to advise and train the forces. remain Iraqi.

American forces entered Iraq for the second time in 2014. Under this pretext, America sent 3,000 troops into this country in the form of an international coalition against ISIS, 2,500 of whom were Americans. After the announcement of the victory over ISIS by Baghdad, the people and the government of Iraq emphasized the necessity of the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, were martyred. In response to this crime, the Iraqi parliament approved the plan to expel American soldiers from the country in January 2018.

Despite several rounds of strategic negotiations between Baghdad and Washington to end the US military presence in Iraq, the US is still present in Iraq in violation of this resolution. Although the Iraqi authorities have announced the beginning of the withdrawal process of the American military, and sometimes the news of the withdrawal of several American combat units is in the media.

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