US Forces Pull out of 15 Bases in Iraq, Stick to 2 in Erbil, Anbar

This morning, a parliamentarian in Iraq announced that the US forces started already to withdraw from 15 military bases in which they are located on the territory of his country.

Member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Ali Al-Ghanmi, said that the American forces have started to withdraw physically from 15 military bases, while their presence has now been limited to two military locations, the first in Erbil and the second is the Ain al-Assad base in Anbar, where Washington "sticks to them".

Last month, the Iraqi government announced that it would "not retract" its decision to remove foreign forces from the country, after the crisis that escalated between Baghdad and Washington over the killing of the Iranian top military commander Qassem Soleimani.

On the other hand, the American embassy in Iraq has warned its citizens of upcoming demonstrations in Baghdad and Najaf during the next three days.

Meanwhile, a leader of the Moqtada Al-Sadr movement threatened the designated Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Allawi, to "oust him" within three days if he assigned people belonging to the pro-Iranian 'popular crowd' factions in the government he intends to form.

Worth noting that there is political competition between Sadr and the 'popular crowd', which includes armed groups that were part of the Sadrist movement before they separated from it.

It is assumed that Allawi, who was named Prime Minister after a difficult consensus reached by the political blocs, would submit his cabinet form to Parliament before the second of next March to vote on it, according to the constitution.

Since the first of last October, Baghdad and the cities of southern Iraq are witnessing protests calling for early elections and fighting corruption, which prompted former Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to resign.