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President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia alSudani, who’s visiting subsequent month because the nations maintain formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.led navy coalition fashioned to struggle the Islamic State group in Iraq.
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who’s visiting subsequent month because the nations maintain formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.-led navy coalition fashioned to struggle the Islamic State group in Iraq.
The assembly is scheduled for April 15, the White Home mentioned Friday.
The leaders will “seek the advice of on a spread of points,” together with the struggle in opposition to the Islamic State and “ongoing Iraqi monetary reforms to advertise financial improvement and progress towards Iraq’s monetary independence and modernization,” the White Home mentioned.
The 2 nations have a fragile relationship due partially to Iran’s appreciable sway in Iraq, the place a coalition of Iran-backed teams introduced al-Sudani to energy in October 2022.
The U.S. in current months has urged Iraq to do extra to forestall assaults on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria which have additional roiled the Center East within the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel. It’s additionally sought to use monetary strain over Baghdad’s relationship with Tehran, proscribing Iraq’s entry to its personal {dollars} in an effort to stamp out cash laundering mentioned to profit Iran and Syria.
The U.S. and Iraq, in the meantime, held a primary session in January to debate ending the coalition created to assist the Iraqi authorities struggle the Islamic State, with some 2,000 U.S. troops remaining within the nation below an settlement with Baghdad. Iraqi officers have periodically known as for a withdrawal of these forces.
The go to may also come a yr after the kidnapping in Baghdad of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-American educational at Princeton College who’s believed to be held by an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah, that’s regarded by Washington as a terrorist group and is seen as some of the highly effective armed teams in Iraq. It was fashioned through the energy vacuum that adopted the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, with assist from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
On Thursday, Tsurkov’s sister, Emma, urged the State Division to declare Iraq a state sponsor of terrorism and known as on the White Home to make the al-Sudani assembly contingent on the prime minister arranging for the discharge of her sister — one thing she mentioned that he was empowered to do.
“I’m appalled that Sudani will likely be allowed to shake President Biden’s hand whereas his different hand holds the keys to my sister’s shackles,” Tsurkov mentioned at occasion outdoors the Iraqi Embassy in Washington.
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