Iraqi PM Abdul Mahdi asks US to prepare plans to pullout some 5,200 American troops deployed there The latest updates:
Some 5,200 US soldiers are stationed at bases across Iraq to support local troops preventing a resurgence of the Islamic State group. Iraq's caretaker premier Adil Abdul Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Baghdad to begin preparing for a troop pullout, his office said on Friday.
They make up the bulk of a broader US-led coalition, invited by the Iraqi government in 2014 to help combat militants. Their deployment was based on an executive-to-executive agreement, never ratified by Iraq's parliament. Days later, Iran fired a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases used by the US and other coalition troops, causing damage but no casualties, according to officials.Iraq's top cleric condemned the mutual US and Iranian attacks on Iraqi soil and warned of deteriorating security in the country and the wider region as a result of Washington's standoff with Tehran.
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