Reports: Washington postponed announcement scheduled for this week to reduce its forces in Iraq

 Reports: Washington postponed announcement scheduled for this week to reduce its forces in Iraq

 Informed sources revealed, today, Monday, July 8, 2024, that the American side has withdrawn from the official announcement of an upcoming schedule that includes reducing the number of its forces in Iraq, during the current week, after it had been preparing for that.

According to the sources, the American side backed down from its decision to announce the reduction of forces during internal deliberations, before meeting with the Iraqi side, within the framework of the Iraqi-American bilateral committee.

She suggested that "there is a link between the decision to postpone the announcement of the reduction in Iraq, after the process of withdrawing American forces from Niger took priority, as the American army completed, yesterday, the withdrawal of all its soldiers from "Air Base 101" in Niamey.  link