Iraqi Bloc Confirms Commitment to U.S. Troops Pullout
BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – The leading Iraqi parliamentary bloc of al-Fatih Coalition has confirmed that it will not retreat from demanding the Iraqi government to implement the parliament’s decision to withdraw foreign troops, including Americans, from the Iraqi soil, a local media reported.
The insistence of al-Fatih bloc, headed by Hadi al-Ameri, came because "the decision of ending the presence of foreign forces from Iraq was already passed in the Iraqi parliament and approved by the government of resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi,” spokesman of al-Fatih (Conquest) Coalition, Ahmed al-Asadi, told the Iraqi NINA news agency.
Al-Asadi said that Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi included the implementation of the decision to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq in his political program when he assumed the post.
On Jan. 5, 2020, the Iraqi parliament passed a resolution requiring the government to end the presence of foreign troops in Iraq, two days after a U.S. drone strike on a convoy at Baghdad airport which assassinated top Iranian anti-terror operations commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s popular Hashd Sha’abi forces.
A few thousand U.S. troops are leading foreign troops purportedly helping the Iraqi security forces in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group. However, Iraqis have reiterated time and again that they do not need the U.S. and its allies to restore security to the Arab country.
Iraq said on Monday it was tightening security along its 600 km (400 mile) border with Syria to curb the movement of foreign-backed Daesh terrorists, drug smuggling and other illegal activities.
Iraqi commanders toured the remote desert frontier controlled by various different forces.
The border is a flashpoint for tension between the popular forces and the United States, and is also tense because of Daesh incursions and Turkish pressure on Kurdish militant groups.
At an outpost facing into Syria, Lieutenant-General Abdul Amir al-Shammari said the Iraqi side was under the control of state forces and was being more tightly secured.
Iraq was stepping up use of high-tech thermal cameras and observation balloons, he said.
The insistence of al-Fatih bloc, headed by Hadi al-Ameri, came because "the decision of ending the presence of foreign forces from Iraq was already passed in the Iraqi parliament and approved by the government of resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi,” spokesman of al-Fatih (Conquest) Coalition, Ahmed al-Asadi, told the Iraqi NINA news agency.
Al-Asadi said that Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi included the implementation of the decision to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq in his political program when he assumed the post.
On Jan. 5, 2020, the Iraqi parliament passed a resolution requiring the government to end the presence of foreign troops in Iraq, two days after a U.S. drone strike on a convoy at Baghdad airport which assassinated top Iranian anti-terror operations commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s popular Hashd Sha’abi forces.
A few thousand U.S. troops are leading foreign troops purportedly helping the Iraqi security forces in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group. However, Iraqis have reiterated time and again that they do not need the U.S. and its allies to restore security to the Arab country.
Iraq said on Monday it was tightening security along its 600 km (400 mile) border with Syria to curb the movement of foreign-backed Daesh terrorists, drug smuggling and other illegal activities.
Iraqi commanders toured the remote desert frontier controlled by various different forces.
The border is a flashpoint for tension between the popular forces and the United States, and is also tense because of Daesh incursions and Turkish pressure on Kurdish militant groups.
At an outpost facing into Syria, Lieutenant-General Abdul Amir al-Shammari said the Iraqi side was under the control of state forces and was being more tightly secured.
Iraq was stepping up use of high-tech thermal cameras and observation balloons, he said.