Resuming talks about ending the presence of American forces in Iraq

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, Baghdad announced this evening (Thursday) that the talks with Washington about the future of the forces of the so-called anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq will be resumed on Sunday next week.

According to the report of the official Iraqi news agency (WAA), Yahya Rasool, the spokesman of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, announced in a statement that the High Bilateral Military and Technical Committee of Iraq and the United States, on Sunday equal to February 11 2024 will start working again with the aim of “reviewing and timing the end of the international coalition mission in Iraq”. Today, the White House strategist mentioned that Washington is discussing the status and mission of American forces with Iraq.

The talks between the two sides started in January this year But after 24 hours, following the killing of three American soldiers on the borders of Syria and Jordan, this dialogue was stopped.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, earlier this month, made a statement of agreement with Sadr The US government announced the gradual reduction of the so-called anti-ISIS coalition forces after six months of negotiations with this country. Baghdad announced that according to this agreement, the “fight against ISIS” mission that this coalition has defined for itself will end.

American forces entered Iraq for the second time in 2014. Under this pretext, the United States sent 3,000 troops 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 process of withdrawal of American soldiers, and sometimes the news of the withdrawal of several American combat units is reported in the media.

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