The Sudanese is open despite Biden's delay.. Details of a new understanding that establishes long-te

[size=52]The Sudanese is open despite Biden's delay.. Details of a new understanding that establishes long-term military cooperation[/size]

[size=45]The American “Al-Monitor” website considered that the administration of US President Joe Biden, and through the understandings announced two days ago between Washington and Baghdad with the visit of Iraqi Defense Minister Thabet al-Abbasi, took the first step in order to answer the questions of the US Congress about how the Pentagon plans to deal and cooperate with the forces. Al-Iraqiya to act on its own, after defeating ISIS.[/size]
[size=45]The American report stated, “More than 4 years after ISIS handed over its last stronghold at the Iraqi-Syrian border, senior Pentagon officials sat down with their Iraqi counterparts to lay the foundation for US military support for Baghdad over the next decade.”[/size]
[size=45]late step[/size]
[size=45]The report indicated that "the important meetings held in Washington were a late step by Biden towards unifying the approaches of US government agencies to enable the Iraqi army to stand on its own."[/size]
[size=45]And the American report mentioned, in a statement to the Middle East policy official at the Pentagon, Dana Stroul, who said before the meetings, “We want a partnership with them like the partnership that we have with the armies in the rest of the region,” and that the American forces will not be present in Iraq in the current form that they are now.[/size]
[size=45]According to the report, the Biden administration's policy approach towards Iraq has focused largely on the campaign to defeat ISIS, and with the terrorist organization heading for covert action, Washington is seeking to bring economic investments to Iraq to help stabilize its economy and achieve rapprochement between it and its Gulf neighbors, including through military partnerships.[/size]
[size=45]Sudanese open minded[/size]
[size=45]The report quoted the US ambassador to Iraq, Elena Romanovsky, as saying recently that "the time has come now to seize this opportunity, and Prime Minister Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani is very open to that."[/size]
[size=45]He also quoted Stroll as indicating that "there are opportunities to facilitate Iraq's integration with partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and that this can also be achieved through military exercises and military engagement."[/size]
[size=45]According to US officials, who spoke to Al-Monitor, the ISIS networks that seek to launch attacks in Iraq and Syria have been reduced to a low-level insurgency with limited ability to carry out external operations, noting a 64% decrease in ISIS attacks in Iraq during the period. last year.[/size]
[size=45]In this context, the report mentioned, with a statement by the commander of the coalition forces, General Matthew MacFarlane, in which he said, "We believe that there are a thousand or less ISIS in Iraq, and the same is true for Syria."[/size]
[size=45]The American report pointed out that “US military officials recently praised the steps taken by the Iraqi security forces since the near collapse that the army suffered in 2014 at the hands of ISIS, when the organization swept across the border from Syria and approached close to Baghdad, imposing its rule on an area the size of Britain almost has about 8 million people. General McFarlane was quoted as saying, "We are now focusing on building their (the Iraqi army's) capabilities to carry out more than one operation at a time and build on it throughout Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]American presence[/size]
[size=45]And the report indicated that “the Internal Security Forces continue to rely on about 2,500 American advisors and international coalitions in the wake of the war against ISIS, but officials say that this task will not likely continue indefinitely.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, “In 2020-2021, the United States withdrew nearly half of its anti-ISIS forces in Iraq and reinforced operations advisors at headquarters before publicly announcing the end of the United States’ combat role in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]According to US officials, part of this week's discussions at the Pentagon was aimed at defining mutually agreed parameters for moving to the final stage of the defeat-ISIS mission.[/size]
[size=45]The Al-Monitor report quoted a high-ranking US military official as saying before the meetings, “With the passage of time, I think you will notice that as the mission progresses, you will notice that things shrink.”[/size]
[size=45]However, the report considered that the Iraqi forces are still suffering from corruption and are unable so far to carry out simultaneous joint operations, relying only on their own intelligence.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The Iraqi army continues to rely on weapons from the Soviet era in a mixture with American weapons and other advanced foreign weapons that have proven difficult to maintain and operate."[/size]
[size=45]In this context, the report mentioned, with a statement by General MacFarlane, in which he said, "We are witnessing an improvement over time in their (Iraqis') ability to search, repair and finish independently using their aircraft and F-16s," but only 66% of these Iraqi aircraft are capable of The implementation of the tasks, according to what is indicated in the report of the Pentagon's inspector general.[/size]
[size=45]According to the inspector general's report, "the Iraqi Air Force also lacks air-to-ground targeting coordination and relies on the US-led coalition forces to identify targets in all air strikes that involve the use of guided munitions."[/size]
[size=45]The army, the Peshmerga, and the crowd[/size]
[size=45]The report pointed out that “the budget indicates an increase in the number and financing of the Popular Mobilization Forces, it also calls for reducing the size of the elite anti-terrorist apparatus by about 4 thousand elements, or more than 14% of the elite force, while Washington says that the apparatus is operating only by 43%.” of many.”[/size]
[size=45]At the same time, the report said, “The Peshmerga brigade is still divided despite its reliance on American funding channels.” The report quoted Jonathan Lord, a researcher at the “Center for a New American Security,” as saying: “The Kurdish forces are likely to disintegrate on the day the funds run dry.” .[/size]
[size=45]Al-Monitor’s report concluded by noting that US officials are likely to resume attacks on US sites in Syria and Iraq by pro-Iranian factions, unless al-Sudani obtains some external indications of progress regarding the demands of these factions to end the presence of US forces in Iraq.[/size]
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