The Iraqi parliament on Thursday demanded the government to develop a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, a source in the parliament told Sputnik.The US-led international coalition was providing military support to Iraq, withOn Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister said that coalition force numbers were now "very limited" and emphasized it wasThere is no base or airport controlled by foreign forces... No aircraft lands or takes off without our authorization," he told a news conference.US forces occupied Iraq for eight years, between a 2003 invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein and their withdrawal in December 2011. A US-led coalition was formed in 2014 and with thousands of troops and air support helped Iraqi security forces and a Kurdish-led Syrian militia roll back Daesh across large swathes of Iraq and Syria and destroy the cross-border caliphate set up by the extremists. Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesperson of the Iraqi Cabinet, said last month it was logical that the coalition would reduce the number of its troops in Iraq after victory was declared over Islamic State militants in December. “Parliament voted for a decision to thank friendly nations for their support in defeating Islamic State and at the same time to demand the government set a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops,” lawmaker Husham al-Suhail told Reuters.
The Parliament of Iraq votes to oblige the federal government to set a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops.