"No matter what choices the Americans make, we will maintain our presence in Iraq to fight against terrorism," Macron tells a news conference in Baghdad where he is attending a regional summit.
"We have the operational capacity to ensure this presence," he adds after the meeting, which has been overshadowed by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...’s takeover of Afghanistan and Thursday’s suicide kaboom in Kabul claimed by an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group affiliate.