MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US expresses disappointment over Iraqi parliament’s vote on expelling foreign troops from Iraq and cutting off ties with the US-led international anti-terrorist coalition, the US State Department said, as tensions in the area are rising after the killing of an Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad.
The parliament voted to support the measures on Sunday and the decision is currently pending approval from the government.
“We believe it is in the shared interests of the United States and Iraq to continue fighting ISIS together. This administration remains committed to a sovereign, stable, and prosperous Iraq,” Ortagus added.
The parliament’s vote followed a US airstrike on Baghdad, that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abu Mahdi Muhandis, a senior member of Iraq’s Iranian-backed Shia Popular Mobilization Forces, on Friday.
Tens of thousands of people took to streets across Iraq and Iran on Saturday and Sunday to mourn Soleimani and Muhandis.
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