The decision to restart military operations came a little more than two weeks after Iraq’s Parliament voted to expel all American forces from the country. Two US military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak about the missions to reporters, confirmed that the joint operations had restarted. Iraq’s acting prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, who has said that his government would comply with Parliament’s order to expel American forces, seemed to soften his position Wednesday. Removing the US military from Iraq would take more than a vote in Parliament. That attack led to the vote by Iraq’s Parliament to expel American forces from the country and a counterstrike by Iran on two US military posts in Iraq last week.

Source: bd News24 January 16, 2020 05:26 UTC