Iraq Prime Minister News | Iraq's PM Seeks Closer Ties With US While Keeping Armed Groups At Bay

Iraq Prime Minister News | Iraq's PM Seeks Closer Ties With US While Keeping Armed Groups At Bay In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Al-Sudani explains how he did this, how he plans to keep these groups in check going forward and — as he seeks a second term — why he wants to get closer to the Trump administration, even as he maintains strong ties to Iran-backed political parties that helped propel him to power in 2022. After Israel launched airstrikes on Iran and it responded by firing missiles at Tel Aviv, armed groups in Iraq attempted to launch missiles and drones toward Israel and at bases housing US troops, al-Sudani said, but they were thwarted 29 times by Iraqi government “security operations” that he did not specify. 

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