Iraq mulls law that would end foreign military presence
Sairoon Bloc introduces bill that would, if passed, give foreign forces a year to get out of Iraq
By Idris Okuducu
BAGHDAD
Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Bloc, which dominated Iraqi legislative polls last year, has submitted a bill to parliament that would, if passed, require all foreign military personnel to leave the country within one year.
At a Friday press conference in Baghdad,
“The speaker’s office will now confer with the assembly’s security, legal, defense
If passed, he explained, the bill would require all foreign military deployments -- including troops and advisers -- to leave the country within one year of ratification.
The U.S. ended combat operations in Iraq in 2010, after which it ostensibly focused solely on training Iraqi forces.
After a U.S.-led coalition was established in 2014 to fight the Daesh terrorist group, however, roughly 5,000 U.S. troops were redeployed to Iraq.
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