Foreign Ministry: There are no US forces in Iraq, only advisers
Baghdad – Mil
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that there are no US forces in Iraq except for military advisers under the umbrella of the international coalition.
The ministry said in a statement to Mill that “there are no US forces in Iraq except for the military advisers who are under the umbrella of the international coalition,” pointing out that “these advisers are covered by the outputs of the work of the Supreme Military Committee.”
She added that “the two parties are committed to the mechanisms followed and their outputs,” noting that “the Supreme Military Committee has focused its work during the past months on assessing the threat of ISIS organization with the aim of reaching a deadline to end the military mission of Operation Inherent Resolve.”
“On this basis, the presence of the advisers of the international coalition with all their nationalities on the territory of Iraq will be ended,” she continued, noting that “these discussions included details that included the hierarchy of the withdrawal of advisers from the sites, and only agreement remained on the details and date of the announcement and some other logistical aspects.”
“We were very close to the announcement of this agreement, but due to recent developments the announcement of the end of the military mission of the international coalition in Iraq was postponed,” she continued, stressing that “the bilateral relationship with the United States in all areas, including the security relationship, is completely separate from the course of the relationship with the international coalition forces.”
She stressed that “this relationship exists before the coalition and will continue after it,” adding that “the Iraqi delegation discussed the future of the security relationship in the fields of training, weaponization, equipping and security cooperation, in light of what the Iraqi Constitution allows and the framework of the strategic agreement between Iraq and the United States.”
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