US and Britain to ‘reduce troops’ in Iraq under plan to defuse regional tensions
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(Worthy News) – The Western troop presence in Iraq is to be scaled down under a plan to defuse regional tensions over America’s killing of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani.
Rather than bowing to Iranian demands for a pull-out of all coalition forces, diplomats are working towards a compromise deal whereby the foreign troop presence will simply be reduced.
They hope that will satisfy demands from pro-Iranian factions in Iraq’s parliament, which voted two weeks ago for foreign troops to leave after Mr. Soleimani’s death in a US drone strike on January 3. [ Source: UK Telegraph (Read More…) ]
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