Iraqi Prime Minister Asks US to Make Plans to Withdraw Troops

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey, on May 15, 2019. Burhan Ozbilici/AP Photo

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi asked U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo for a “mechanism” that would lead to the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country.

Abdul-Mahdi’s office said in a statement that the prime minister asked Pompeo to “send delegates to Iraq to prepare a mechanism to carry out the parliament’s resolution regarding the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.”