New details of a possible Baghdad Washington agreement on US troops.
The duties American troops in Iraq will not change much and will only transfer from combat mission to advisory mission, an American publication quoted Baghdad Washington agreement on the issue.
“The end of the US combat mission in Iraq will not mean leaving the country,” Politico quoted a US official and two informants as saying.
Politico quoted the men as saying that the program, which is scheduled to be released on Monday, does not discuss the issue of leaving Iraq, but that a number of US troops will continue their presence on Iraqi soil.
According to them, part of the US military will provide logistical support and advice to Iraqi forces, and the air force, intelligence and reconnaissance forces will remain on Iraqi soil for what they call fighting ISIS.
The statement announcing the change in US approach to Iraq is the result of strategic talks between Iraqi and US officials over the past few years, Politico wrote. Accordingly, the US forces, which officially number about 2,500, will not change much, but the combat forces will be replaced by forces that will focus on the advisory mission.
“We no longer need combat forces,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein said today (Thursday). We have such forces ourselves. We need cooperation in the field of information. We need help with training. “We need forces to help us with air issues.”
On Thursday night, the Wall Street Journal reported in a similar report that senior Iraqi and US officials were to issue a statement urging US combat troops to leave Iraq by the end of this year.
The Iraqi parliament in January 1998, following the criminal act of the United States in the assassination of General Haj Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Martyr Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, plan to expel American troops from Iraq. Approved; However, the United States continues to insist on violating the resolution and remaining on Iraqi soil.
