Upcoming discussions will determine the fate of US troops withdrawing from Syria

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[size=52]Upcoming discussions will determine the fate of US troops withdrawing from Syria[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Wael Nehmeh
[size=45]At a very critical time, Washington has caused controversy inside Iraq over the future of its forces, which recently withdrew from eastern Syria and entered two days ago into Iraqi Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]Parliament plans to ask the government how long US troops will stay and where they will be deployed.[/size]
[size=45]This comes at a time when the government and political forces are busy with the crisis of protests, which is likely to resume next Friday, amid calls for an end to corruption and quotas and the provision of services.[/size]
[size=45]US forces, who crossed into Dohuk on Monday, left a vacuum in eastern Syria that Iraqi officials say is witnessing IS activity.[/size]
[size=45]"It is in our interest that these forces remain in Iraq," said a deputy from Anbar, who asked not to be named by telephone.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command announced in a statement that all US forces that withdrew from Syria have obtained approval to enter the Kurdish region in Iraq and then leave Iraq. .[/size]
[size=45]US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday that Washington aimed to bring US troops out of Syria to the United States rather than keep them in Iraq "for a long time."[/size]
[size=45]"The goal is not to stay in Iraq for a long time. The goal is to pull our troops home and eventually bring them home," Esber said in front of a battery of Patriot missiles at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[/size]
[size=45]He said details of the time US troops would spend in Iraq had not yet been discussed and he would hold discussions with his Iraqi counterpart on Wednesday.[/size]
[size=45]President Trump announced earlier that "US forces coming out of Syria will now be redeployed and remain in the region to monitor the situation and prevent a recurrence of what happened in 2014, when the neglected threat to ISIL erupted throughout Syria and Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]The United States announced last Sunday the withdrawal of 1,000 US troops deployed in northern and eastern Syria, five days after the Turkish attack on Kurdish fighters, from a base on the outskirts of the buffer zone Ankara is working to establish.[/size]
[size=45]Between the province and Anbar[/size]
[size=45]"US forces entered with the consent of the Kurdistan region and the Baghdad government," said Reem Agha, a member of parliament's security and defense committee.[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdistan region, on Tuesday, on the decision to withdraw US troops from areas of northern Syria, praising the role of US forces in the "protection" of the region.[/size]
[size=45]“The US-led coalition forces have played a key role in protecting and assisting the citizens of the Kurdistan Region, starting with the imposition of the no-fly zone in 1991, the overthrow of the Baathist regime in 2003, and the defeat of the Islamic State terrorist organization in recent years,” the Presidency said in a statement. She made sacrifices and defended the Kurdistan region along with the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces.[/size]
[size=45]He added: "So we should not forget the role and struggle of the coalition, especially the US military, and confuse them with an unwanted political decision, and the Kurdistan region reiterates its thanks and appreciation to the coalition forces and the US military, and highly values ​​their struggle and sacrifices."[/size]
[size=45]Dozens of US military vehicles left Syria amid anger at the Kurdish population there, some throwing them with "rotten vegetables," according to some Western agencies, as Kurds felt Washington was abandoning them and leaving them to Turkey.[/size]
[size=45]Fears[/size]
[size=45]Kurdish MP Ha Reem Agha said the withdrawal of US troops from eastern Syria would "lead to a demographic change in that area and leave the door open to ISIS still in the areas of Deir Ezzor."[/size]
[size=45]The deputy believes that "IS will pressure to enter Iraq," while he considered that the Iraqi government movement towards the border during the past days "is very important to prevent infiltrators."[/size]
[size=45]Two days ago, a deputy in Nineveh confirmed that a number of "ISIS" militants were able to cross the border, which was denied by Governor Mansour al-Maraid.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, gunmen attacked the Allas fields east of Tikrit in the deadliest attack on the fields in more than a year.[/size]
[size=45]Ali al-Ghanmi, another member of parliament's security committee, said there were "gaps" in the border and "weaknesses in security and air defense" that could allow militants to cross from Syria.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Ghanmi said in a statement to (Al-Mada) that although "the presence of combat forces in Iraq help to fill those gaps, but it will face the rejection of most political forces."[/size]
[size=45]He stressed that the House of Representatives will ask the government with the resumption of parliamentary sessions on "the duration of the US troops in Iraq and the geographical distribution."[/size]


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