Baghdad and Washington agreed: US will bring troops from Iraq

The US and Iraq delegations agreed during the Round of Strategic Dialogue that the US military units and coalition can be derived from this country. The time will be determined later during technical advice, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the joint statement of the governments of the two countries.

Both countries confirmed that the US forces are in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government to support the security forces of the republic in their fight against the “Islamic State”. Based on the growing potential of this grouping, both parties confirmed that the mission of the United States and Coalition forces. Now it will be focused on training and consulting tasks, which will allow you to transfer the remaining fighting forces from Iraq, while the deadlines will be determined during the upcoming technical advice, “the statement said, which distributed the State Department.

The Agency reminds that during the previous meeting of the strategic dialogue in Washington in August last year, the US President Donald Trump said that the Russian coalition troops would be fully removed from Iraq for three years. In October, Iraqi Foreign Ministry reported that Baghdad had formed a coordination commission with the USA schedule of the American military contingent from the country.