The announcement of the United States of being ready for negotiations to end its military presence in Iraq

While complaints and opposition against the continued presence of 2,500 US soldiers camped in Iraq have increased, the Iraqi Foreign Minister has announced that the letter from the US ambassador in Baghdad will be addressed by Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani and relevant officials. An American official who did not want his name to be mentioned also said that the issue is not new, and that in the past there have been talks to discuss the issue between the officials of the two countries of Iraq and the United States and he added that the start of the talks had been discussed for months several back. The Washington official has continued to explain that, throughout the negotiations, the United States will also continue to protect its full right to military defense. Even so, the confusing point here is that several days back, that is on January 16, when the US military bases in Iraq and Syria were attacked, Washington announced that it intends to send another 1,500 new soldiers to Iraq and Syria from its guard force. of the nation of New Jersey for what it called, fighting the terrorist group DAESH (ISIS). The leaders of Iraq have made several statements calling for the American troops to leave the country. Among those leaders is Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, who in early January 2024, insisted once again that American troops leave Iraq quickly. After the brutal killing of Martyr Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Martyr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy of the Al-Hashdu-Shaabi Force and those who accompanied them by the terrorist army of the United States near the Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020, two days later, that is, on January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted to request the forces of the anti-DAESH coalition, including the United States, to leave the land of the country. However, Washington maintained an illegal position by keeping its troops in Iraq. Finally, due to the political pressures inside Iraq, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Prime Minister of Iraq at the time, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, signed an agreement in the middle of the summer of 2021 and promised that the military operations of the US-led forces in Iraq will be officially concluded before the end of 2021. Mustafa al Kadhimi (right) and Joe Biden In 2020, the last year of Donald Trump's presidency, the United States reduced the number of troops in Iraq to 2,500. Apparently, the work of the US military forces in Iraq ended on December 31, 2021. But despite that, Washington still continues to have a military presence in the country in other ways and has several military bases in Iraq, including A'inul-Asad in the region of Al-Anbar and Harir camp in Erbil region. Despite the plan passed by the Iraqi Parliament to call for the withdrawal of American troops from the country, Washington is still stationed in Iraq under the pretext of providing advice and military training, an issue that has been faced by the Iraqis' strong reactions and the response of the use of force, which is witnessed drone and missile attacks against US military bases in that country and Syria. The attacks have become more heated especially after the start of sabotage and barbaric attacks by the Zionist regime of Israel against the Gaza Strip following the October 7 Al-Aqsa Hurricane Operation. The reason for the attacks, which have been targeting American bases in Iraq and Syria using rockets, missiles and drones, is the involvement of the United States in openly supporting and helping Tel Aviv politically and with weapons and using Washington's weapons to kill citizens. victims of the Gaza Strip. The Iraqi opposition, also going along with the wishes of the Iraqi people, wants the US military presence in that country to end as soon as possible. In response to these actions, Washington has responded by carrying out several attacks against the Iraqi Resistance groups. After the recent attack by American planes against two residences of Al-Hashdu-Shaabi, which led to the martyrdom of two members of the movement, the Iraqi government issued a statement condemning the attack and announced that it will sue Washington, if it is to defend the authority of governance of Iraq at the international level. Along with condemning the attack of the American army on the residence of Al-Hashdu-Shaabi, the National Security Adviser of Iraq Qasim al-Aaraji said, the attack is a clear violation of the authority of his country. The important issue is that the claims of the United States about its intention to withdraw from Iraq have been questioned by the opposition in that country. In relation to the issue, along with the whispers of negotiations between the United States and Iraq to end Washington's military presence in the country, Kataeb Hizbullah has said that the American claim to leave Iraq is just a trick and a hoax, and for that reason it has emphasized that will continue attacks against the invaders until they completely leave Iraq. In a message to the American invaders, Abu al-Askari, the security chief of the Iraqi Kataeb Hizbullaq resistance movement, has warned Washington that "attacks against the American invaders will continue until the country's troops completely leave Iraqi soil"... /