Speaking to Almaalomah news agency on Sunday, member of the Anbar provincial council Mohammed al-Delimy said that American forces have been surprisingly stationed 30 km north of the Euphrates river, a location seen as vital to control the desert areas between Anbar and Nineveh provinces.
Al-Delimy warned that Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
The U.S. forces are now situated in two camps, one at the Iraqi Tanaf crossing, and the other near the phosphate mines south of Qaem, Anbar, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...i newspaper quoted officials as saying earlier this year.
Last March, the Iraqi parliament obliged the government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country after the military operations against Islamic State
The officials noted that those forces contribute to the rehabilitation of Iraqi artillery forces damaged by the war.
The U.S. has led an international coalition backing Iraqi forces against IS since 2014. The Pentagon had said late 2017 it maintained slightly more than 8000 troops in Iraq.