According to the government in Baghdad, an official document will be signed “in the coming days” that will seal a gradual withdrawal of US troops and their allies from Iraq.
The withdrawal of soldiers from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State jihadist militia should take place in “two phases”, Iraqi Defence Minister Thabet al-Abbassi said on Sunday, hoping the related agreement will be formally signed “in the coming days”.
The US currently has about 2,500 troops stationed in Iraq as part of the anti-ISIS military coalition and another 900 in neighboring Syria. It has been in talks with Baghdad for months about the withdrawal of troops, but no official timetable has been announced.
Kurdish areas have also been affected
Iraq’s defense minister told Al-Hadath television on Sunday that under the deal reached, the coalition plans to give up its bases in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq by September 2025. It must also leave the autonomous Kurdish regions in northern Iraq by September 2026. The military anti-IS coalition was formed in 2014 to push back the jihadist militia in Iraq and Syria.
Source: Krone
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