Iraq – Brigadier Rasul: US troop reductions are coordinated by the Iraqi government and coalition forces

Baghdad-Iraq 21-2-2018

Spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Brigadier General Yahia Rasool, said that the Iraqi forces do not need any foreign members to fight with them in Iraq, pointing out the need to continue cooperation in the exchange of intelligence, training and armament between the Iraqi and US forces. He added that the issue of reducing the number of US troops is coordinated between the Iraqi government and the international coalition forces, while security experts pointed out that there are no US forces fighting with the Iraqi forces, as their tasks are only limited to providing assistance in the logistical and intelligence areas as well as providing air support, stressing that after the victory over ISIS the US forces began to withdraw some of the military advisers and trainers gradually, and what is now agreed on is moving to the training, arming and equipping phases between the forces of the two countries.

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