US-Iraq Agreement: Old Wine in New Bottles
Oct 01, 2024
Baghdad [Iraq], October 1: In 2014, Washington reached an agreement with Baghdad to send US troops to Iraq to fight the Islamic State ( IS ), extremist Islamist forces in Iraq and Syria. The two sides later terminated the agreement and replaced it with a new agreement on military and security cooperation. The core and key content here is whether the US military is still present in Iraq and whether Washington will maintain a military base in Iraq or not. If we use this content to distinguish the new agreement from the old agreement, we will see that the new agreement between the US and Iraq is only new in name but remains unchanged in substance.
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