withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has been asked by the United States to send a delegation to Baghdad to begin preparations for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.

The statement issued Friday from the office of the caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said that the Prime Minister had telephoned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to send a delegation.
On Thursday night, Adil Abdul Mahdi telephoned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and requested him to send delegates to Iraq who set out procedures for implementing the Iraqi parliament's decision to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq. . '
Parliament voted in favor of the withdrawal of all foreign troops on Sunday, following the killing of Qasim Sulaimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force in Iraq, according to news agency AFP. The deployment of foreign troops is the result of an agreement between the governments of the two countries, which was never ratified by the country's parliament.
The next day, US commanders sent a letter to their counterparts in Baghdad saying they were planning to leave Iraq.

The letter said the alliance would change the deployment of forces in the coming days and weeks to prepare for the withdrawal.
The US Defense Department said the letter was sent in error, but Abdul Mahdi disagreed with the US stance, saying that his office received signed and translated copies of the letter.
The Iraqi Prime Minister has asked Washington to explain its intentions, while the US-led military alliance said Thursday that it also wants to clarify the legal implications of the parliament's vote.
Currently, there are approximately 5200 US troops at US military bases throughout Iraq that help the Iraqi army prevent ISIS from reorganizing.
The troops are part of a larger US-led coalition that was invited by the Iraqi government to come to Iraq in 2014 to help fight the jihadists.
It is understood that after the assassination of Iranian commander Qasim Sulaimani, Iran targeted two US military bases in Iraq.