https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraq-parliament-to-convene-amid-calls-to-expel-us-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z
5.1.2020
Iraq’s parliament is set to convene an extraordinary session on Sunday where lawmakers told Reuters they would push for a vote on a resolution requiring the government to request the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
The session comes two days after a U.S. drone strike on a convoy at Baghdad airport which killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
“There is no need for the presence of American forces after defeating [Daesh] ([Islamic State]),” said Ammar al-Shibli, a Shi’ite lawmaker and member of the parliamentary legal committee.
“We have our own armed forces which are capable of protecting the country,” he said.
Despite decades of enmity between Iran and the United States, Iran-backed militia and U.S. troops fought side by side during Iraq’s 2014-2017 war against [Islamic State] militants.
Around 5,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, most of them in an advisory capacity.
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