Post #2633

Iraqi army announced on Wednesday that the US-led global coalition against the Islamic State group will hand over the strategic Ain al-Assad airbase in western Iraq to the country’s security forces next week. “The coalition’s mission has ended, and the focus has shifted toward concluding bilateral international memoranda and understandings, whether with the United States or with France, Britain, and Italy at present,” said Lieutenant General Qais al-Muhammadawi, Deputy Commander of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC), during a press conference. https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/311220252