Resistance group urges removal of all US air bases from Iraq
Thursday, 29 July 2021 6:23 AM
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Qais Khazali, the secretary general of Iraq’s Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance movement
The Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, a subdivision of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, has called for the removal of all American air bases from the Arab country, after Baghdad and Washington agreed to rename the role of the US military on Iraqi soil.
Asa’ib Secretary General Qais Khazali criticized on Wednesday the agreement reached two days earlier between US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, but still keeping US troops there with what is called a training and advisory role.