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| Washington and Baghdad will discuss the presence of American troops in Iraq |
| 2024-01-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Washington and Baghdad agreed to hold a meeting of the working group of the US-Iraqi High Military Commission (HMC), which will consider the presence of US forces and the international coalition in Iraq, the press service of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on January 25. “This will ultimately help establish a clear timetable for the duration of the international coalition's presence in Iraq,” the statement said. The Foreign Ministry reported that instead of a coalition military presence aimed at fighting IS (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), they plan to form bilateral cooperation. Information about the planned negotiations was confirmed by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin. His statement was published on the department’s website on January 25. “In the coming days, the United States and the government of Iraq will begin meetings of the US-Iraq Military High Commission working group,” Austin said. As Regnum reported, the special representative of the Russian President for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentyev, earlier on January 25, at a meeting on Syria in Astana, said that the United States had given a signal of readiness to withdraw troops from Iraq. He added that this process, as practice has shown, can last for years. The only time when the Americans quickly withdrew troops was in Afghanistan, but a dangerous situation developed there, Lavrentiev clarified. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Let's mov'em to the southern border. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-26 15:46 |
| #1 How fast can we safely get out? So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-26 08:32 |