Kurdish leaders object to removing US troops from Iraq
2020-01-12 00:00:00 - Source: Baghdad Post
A political source revealed, on Sunday, that the Kurdish leaders voiced
rejection to a request to remove the American forces from Iraq.
The source said that the Kurdish leaders affirmed to Prime Minister Adil
Abd al-Mahdi during his visit on Saturday to Erbil and Sulaimaniya, their
refusal to agree to the demands of removing the American forces from the
country.
The source added that "the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic
Party, Massoud Barzani, considered the presence of American forces in the
region a factor of reassurance.