Baghdad: American forces are leaving all their bases in Iraq

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, Hisham Al-Rakabi, the information adviser of the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, announced on Thursday that after the decision was made to withdraw the American military, the coalition forces led by Washington, from all their bases in Iraq. They will leave.

Al-Rakabi said in this context: There are technical teams between Baghdad and Washington to start the process of withdrawing American forces. Iraqi forces also took control of a number of headquarters where foreign forces were previously present. Iraqi will be placed, he emphasized: these forces are capable of maintaining the security and stability of the country. After the expulsion of American forces from the country, there will be no problem in maintaining Iraq’s international position. Al-Rakabi reported that Iraq’s relations with America and other countries are based on joint cooperation and the interests of the country. Therefore, Baghdad has good relations with all the countries of the world.

This Iraqi official said in the end: The final decision of the withdrawal of American troops is in the hands of the technical committees and the [Iraqi] government. Al-Sudani emphasizes that the Iraqi forces and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi are capable of dealing with any possible attack or security threat. The war in Gaza escalated and more than a hundred American military bases in the region were targeted by the resistance. American forces have also recently targeted the commanders of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization by conducting direct operations against Iraqi military bases.

American attack on Al-Hashd al-Shaabi headquarters

The peak of this confrontation, the drone attack on Thursday (January 4) America was in the east of Baghdad, which led to the martyrdom of “Ali Al-Saeidi” nicknamed “Abu Taqwi”, the deputy commander of the Baghdad belt operation and a close comrade of the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.

to announce “the end of the justifications for the presence of the international coalition led by the United States in Iraq” and to talk about the beginning of the arrangements for the end of the presence of the forces of this coalition and consider it an “irreversible commitment” for his government.

Politicians close to the Al-Hashd al-Shaabi organization in a united position demanded the guarantee of Baghdad to implement this new promise of suing Washington for targeting an official force under the command of the Iraqi Armed Forces General Command, and at the same time new movements in the parliament to oblige the government to They started the strict implementation of the decision to expel the Americans (approved in January 2020) and they are talking about passing a new law to end the American occupation. The international coalition under the guidance of the United States is present in Iraq at the invitation of Baghdad, said: “It is Iraq that determines the need for the presence or absence of American forces (more details)”.

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