Easier said than done: Making US troops actually leave Iraq will take more than parliament resolution

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The adoption of a resolution urging the expulsion of the US military from Iraq marks a very important step for the country, but actually making them leave will likely take more than that, analysts told RT.

A resolution calling for the withdrawal of foreign troops was adopted by the Iraqi parliament on Sunday. The non-binding document which the government is yet to consider came in response to the assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, as well as other Iranian and Iraqi military officials, including the deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The high-profile officials were killed in a US airstrike on the outskirts of Baghdad earlier this week.

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