According to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, the governments of the United States and Iraq announced this Thursday an agreement to begin negotiations on a roadmap to end the presence of the current international military coalition under the pretext of combating the Islamic State terrorist group.
According to the information, both parties have already agreed to form working groups to initiate a transition.
In the statement issued today, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that these negotiations must produce a timetable that sets a date for the withdrawal of international troops, taking into account that this must be carried out gradually until the completion of a complete withdrawal.
The day before, Iraq's parliament called on the executive branch to expedite a resolution adopted in 2020 to expel them, following an attack last Tuesday evening on militias linked to the so-called Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
Also earlier this year, a US airstrike on the capital resulted in the deaths of two people, including the deputy commander of the PMF's Baghdad Belt Operations, Muqtada Talib al-Saadi.
Condemning this aggression, Al-Sudani pointed out that the coalition's repeated attacks on the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces were the most dangerous incidents in recent times.
At the same time, he pointed out that popular mobilization is an official presence attached to the state and is subject to it as an integral part of the armed forces.
Likewise, the Prime Minister described the presence of international forces as destabilizing for the country amid Israel's war on Gaza.
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