WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed the agreement officially ended the Mission of the US Battle in Iraq at the end of 2021, more than 18 years after US forces were sent to the country.
Coupled with the withdrawal of Biden from the last American forces in Afghanistan at the end of August, the President of the Democrats was completing the Mission of the US Battle in two wars who later – President George W.
Bush began under his watch.
Biden and Kadhimi met at the Oval office for their first face-to-face talks as part of a strategic dialogue between the United States and Iraq.
“Our role in Iraq will …
available, to continue to practice, to help, to help and deal with ISIS because we will not be, at the end of the year, in combat zones,” said Biden to reporters because he and Kadhimi met.
At present there are 2,500 US troops in Iraq who focus on fighting the remnants of Islamic countries.
The US role in Iraq will shift completely with training and advise the Iraqi military to defend themselves.
This shift is not expected to have a big impact because the United States has moved towards focusing on the training of Iraqi forces.
The US-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003 based on the accusations of the government leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam was overthrown from power, but such weapons were never found.
In recent years, the US mission is dominated by helping to defeat Islamic state guerrillas in Iraq and Syria.
“No one will declare the mission is complete.
The aim is the defeat of Eternal Isis,” said a senior administrative official to reporters ahead of Kadhimi’s visit.
The reference reminded the large “mission achieved” banners on the USS aircraft USS Abraham Lincoln above where Bush gave a speech stating the main battle operation in Iraq on May 1, 2003.
“If you look where we are, where we have it, at Where we are an Apache helicopter in battle, when we have special forces we perform regular operations, it is significant evolution.
So at the end of the year we thought we would be in a good place to really move to the role of advisors and capacity building, ” Said the official.
US.
Diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria are targeted in three rocket attacks and drones earlier this month.
Analysts believe that the attack was part of the campaign by the Iranian-supported militia.
Senior administrative officials will not say how many US troops will remain on the ground in Iraq because of advising and training.
Kadhimi is considered friendly to the United States and has tried to examine the power of the Iranian aligned militia.
But the government condemned Air Attack A.S.
Against Iranian fighters that are in harmony along their borders with Syria at the end of June, call it violations of Iraqi sovereignty.
US statement.
– Iraqi is expected to detail a number of non-military agreements related to health, energy and other things.
The United States plans to provide Iraq with 500,000 doses of Pfizer Vaccine or Bionech Covid-19 under the Global Covax vaccine sharing program.
Biden said the dose had to arrive in a few weeks.
The United States will also provide $ 5.2 million to help fund the UN mission to monitor the October election in Iraq.
“We look forward to seeing the election in October,” said Biden.