PM says Iraq could send troops into Syria
Iraq's Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi said his government could deploy troops inside Syria, in the latest fallout from the US decision to withdraw from the war-torn country.
According to Abdul Mahdi Iraq was “considering all the options” to protect the country from threats across its borders, the Associated Press reported on Monday at a press conference.
The US stunned the international community last Thursday when it announced it would pull its forces out of Syria, leaving its allies, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, to fight the Islamic State (IS) group alone.
IS militants hold a pocket of territory along the Syrian-Iraqi border. Iraq is keeping reinforcements at the frontier.
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