Iraqi Ministry of Defense: We are fully prepared for the withdrawal of coalition forces from the country

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the Ministry of Defense of Iraq reacted in a statement this evening (Thursday) to the beginning of negotiations between Baghdad and Washington for the gradual reduction of coalition forces from Iraqi territory.

This evening, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced an agreement with Sadr and the US government after six months of negotiations with this country to gradually reduce the forces of the so-called anti-ISIS coalition and said that according to this agreement, the mission of “fighting with “ISIS”, which this coalition has defined for itself, ends.

The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that the talks between the Iraqi and British High Committee will begin in the next few days until The withdrawal of the coalition forces should be determined.

In this statement, it is stated that the two sides discussed the form of relations between Iraq and the United States, as well as member countries of the international coalition known as anti-ISIS, in various political, economic, and cultural fields. , security and military will negotiate.

In the end, the Ministry of Defense of Iraq announced that the armed forces of this country will withdraw the coalition forces from the territory of this country and assume the responsibility of providing security throughout Iraq’s soil is fully prepared. Baghdad and Washington agreed on July 26 that the American combat forces would withdraw from Iraq by the end of this year, and only a number of American forces would be there for consultation. and remain training Iraqi forces.

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 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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