Iraqi President Barham Salih, has confirmed that all U.S. troops remaining in Iraq are to leave the country, after the Iraqi Parliament ruled on their withdrawal. | Photo: Prensa Latina
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All U.S. troops still stationed in Iraq are to leave the country, confirmed Iraqi President Barham Salih, after a decision adopted by the Iraqi Parliament.
Iraq's President Barham Salih confirmed Parliament's decision that U.S. troops leave the country highlights a dispatch released on Friday by the al-Maluma news agency.
Salih stated that about 2,500 US soldiers are in Iraq, and their presence here is about to end.
In this way, a decree issued in January 2020 by the Iraqi Parliament that forces a total withdrawal of the country's foreign military forces will be completed.
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That ordinance was sealed a few days after the assassination in Baghdad of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by the US Air Force, which acted under the then-president Donald Trump mandate.
Deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and eight other combatants also died in that attack.
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