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U.S. and Iraqi military leadership will meet to discuss a redeployment plan for their coalition forces, Al-Awsat reported. Iraq’s Lieutenant General Abdul-Amir al-Shammari met with American Lieutenant General Paul Calvert, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command announced. The statement said that the U.S. reiterated its
Paramilitary groups are unlikley to accept the arrest of Qassem Musleh for fear it will open the door to more government attempts to bring them to heel
June 1, 2021
Iraqi security authorities announced at the beginning of May that they were digging a trench and employing advanced surveillance technologies along the border with Syria, to tighten security and keep terrorists from entering Iraq.
The US-led coalition, in cooperation with the Iraqi army and the peshmerga, managed to end the Islamic State’s (IS) control over large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2017. Yet IS continuously seeks to infiltrate from Syria. On March 14, Iraqi forces thwarted an infiltration attempt by a terrorist group in Dokji border area in the west of Mount Sinjar. That prompted an Iraqi security source to affirm May 1 that the Iraqi forces coordinate with the Syrian Democratic Forces to track down IS members.