State Department says it was ready for 'a conversation', but not about removing troops. FMTNews USTroops Iraq
US troops were invited into Iraq in 2014 to fight the surge of the extremist Islamic State group.
President Donald Trump has described the 2003 US invasion of Iraq as a mistake and in the past criticised US troop deployments, in Iraq and elsewhere, as wasteful. Caretaker prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, in his call to Pompeo, “requested that delegates be sent to Iraq to set the mechanisms to implement parliament’s decision for the secure withdrawal of forces from Iraq,” Abdel Mahdi’s office said in a statement.
Fearing their movement would be eclipsed by war, Iraqi activists posted calls on social media in recent days for the mass protest on Friday, which marked the inverse date, 10/1, of the first rallies on Oct 1, or 1/10.
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