US President Joe Biden said Monday July 26 that the United States would cease its "
combat mission
" in Iraq
by the end of the year
, to begin a "
new phase
" of military cooperation with the country.
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"
We will not be at the end of the year in a combat mission
" in Iraq but "
our cooperation against terrorism will continue even in this new phase, which we are discussing
", said Joe Biden, alongside the Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kazimi, whom he received Monday at the White House, without however making any concrete announcement on the troops deployed in Iraq.