Noting that “Iraq does want combat troops,” Prime Minister Sudani said his country wanted cooperation with the U. S. -led foreign coalition and with all countries involved in the fight against terrorism, adding that “the groups . . . threaten the security of the entire region. “
With the Iraqi prime minister in France for talks on power and security with President Emmanuel Macron, Sudani hailed his as a “paradigm shift in Iraq-France relations,” which have taken a “strategic path through the signing of a strategic partnership agreement. “.