US looking to counter Iran in post-war Iraq, envoy says
As Iraq emerges from three years of war with the Daesh group, the US is looking to roll back the influence of neighbouring Iran and help the central government resolve its dispute with the Kurdish region, the American envoy to the country has said. US Ambassador Douglas Silliman took up his post in Baghdad in September 2016, just weeks before the start of the operation to retake the northern city of Mosul. With Daesh now driven out of all the territory it once held and Iraq’s declaration that the war against the extremists is over, he says ...
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