US may consider withdrawing from Iraq after presidential election – Top Turkish diplomat – World

ISTANBUL, November 6. /TASS/. The US could consider the possibility of withdrawing troops from Iraq and Syria after the 2024 presidential elections, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.

“After the elections, the US may consider withdrawing troops from Iraq and Syria. They (the Americans) do not want their army to be present in the region within Iran’s sphere of influence. As long as US troops are stationed there “They are open to attack,” he told the Turkiye newspaper.

According to Fidan, the US is discussing the withdrawal of troops from the Baghdad-controlled area of ​​Iraq in 2025 and from Iraqi Kurdistan in 2026.

Turkey’s top diplomat also said the future of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia), which was founded in 2014, is on the agenda. “The plan is to shift the coalition’s area of ​​responsibility to Africa,” Fidan noted.