Fruitless talks between Baghdad and Washington to keep US troops

Fruitless talks between Baghdad and Washington to keep US troops


 translation / Hamed Ahmed

Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi said on Friday that any US combat forces will not remain in Iraq after the end of the battle against al Daesh.
His statement commenting on the news of the Associated Press, about the existence of talks between Iraq and the United States on keeping US troops in the country.
The US official and an official from the Iraqi government has told the Associated Press this week that the talks take place between the two sides on keeping the number of US troops in Iraq.
The US official confirmed that the talks were in the early stages , and he has not reached any agreement.
In line with the norms followed in such matters Agency officials spoke without Ekshva their names.
In his statement today Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi confirmed that there is no presence of any foreign combat troops on the ground in Iraq and that any US troops will remain if the defeat Bdaash will serve as advisers working to train Iraqi security forces "to maintain full readiness for any future security challenges."
Issued Abadi Office that "agencies , international and local news recently traded news that Iraq had agreed with the United States on the survival of US forces in Iraq for the period after achieving military victory over Daesh," he did not , "the presence of combat troops from any country on Iraqi territory until the search for their survival or not. "
The Office of the Prime Minister to "the presence of trainers, consultants and experts from a number of countries", taking part in the liberation of the occupied territories by the Daesh process, noting that " the Iraqi government did not agree with any country in connection with its military role with Iraq 's post - decisive victory over terrorism."
The government statement added that "victory achieved without hands Iraqi purely and trophies and sacrifices of the Iraqis , " asserting that " the Iraqi government has plans and strategies for the development of our security forces capabilities through training and armament to raise the readiness to face the challenges ahead and is open with all international expertise to meet the ambition of Iraq to build a military institution security agencies enjoy full readiness to face any external future security challenges were internal or in accordance with the requirements of the Iraqi national sovereignty. "
While some of the US forces conduct combat operations with Iraqi forces near and behind the fighting fronts in the war against Daesh, the Abadi also asserts in his speech that these forces are tasks only advice, perhaps apparently to avoid the requirement to obtain parliamentary approval
for their survival.
An Iraqi government official, told the Associated Press, that any foreign forces will continue to remain as they are on consultants and for the same reason.
Regardless of any recipe will catch these forces, the talks on keeping US troops in Iraq indicate the existence of a consensus by the two governments that there is a need for the presence of US long - term in Iraq to ensure that the appearance of armed groups again if the expulsion of militants Daesh of the country, a position that is contrary comprehensive US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 ,
the Pentagon is currently approximately 7 thousand US troops in Iraq , and many of them did not declare them openly, because part of them costly temporary assignments or because of certain provisions relating to Bmnzbe these forces.
The number of US troops arrived at the highest stages of combat missions in Iraq in 2007 to approximately 170 thousand troops.
This was the number has dropped in the end to 40 thousand troops before a full withdrawal in 2011.
The role played by the US intervention against al Daesh in Iraq in 2014 as a combat role is through air strikes with only a small presence of ground forces on the ground.
In spite of this, that little presence on the ground has expanded since that time , the fact that Iraqi forces need to assign and help.
The Iraqi forces are now seeking to retrieve another residential neighborhood occupied by the organization Daesh in the eastern side of Mosul, but even after a military victory , Iraqi officials and officials from the international coalition warned of the possibility of organizing a Daesh of carrying out terrorist attacks in the territories controlled by the
government.

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