Prime Minister Al-Sudani announced this morning intentions to set a date for a bilateral committee to discuss the “final termination of the presence of coalition forces in Iraq.”

A day after a US strike assassinated Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) commander Talib Al-Saedi (Abu Taqwa) in Iraq, Prime Minister Al-Sudani announced this morning intentions to set a date for a bilateral committee to discuss the “final termination of the presence of coalition forces in Iraq.”

He added, “We affirm our firm position regarding the termination of the presence of the international coalition after the end of the justifications.”

Al-Sudani stated, “The attack that led to the martyrdom of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani represented a blow to all the norms and laws that govern our relationship with Washington,” and noted, “The Popular Mobilization Forces represent an official presence affiliated with the state and subject to it, and it is an integral part of our armed forces.”

As of today, there remain 2,500 US soldiers in the country under the pretext of “fighting ISIS.” (https://t.me/PalestineResist/25286) In reality, these criminal occupiers are in Iraq to impede anti-colonial resistance work in the region. In Syria, there are 900 US forces who continue to exploit the nation’s resources, stealing the majority of its oil.

The PMF is a coalition of dozens of a resistance groups that successfully defeated ISIS in Iraq in recent years. In 2019, PMF was integrated into the Iraqi Armed Forces, thus making any attack on its leaders an attack on an official Iraqi body. Notably, the martyr Abu Taqwa was a Nujaba movement commander (https://t.me/PalestineResist/25194), a part of PMF.

It should be noted that, since October 18th, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which is also a coalition, has carried out nearly 150 operations targeting US bases in Iraq and Syria, as well as the zionist entity directly (“Eilat (https://t.me/PalestineResist/23699)” four times, the occupied Golan Heights (https://t.me/PalestineResist/24679), and sites near the Dead Sea (https://t.me/PalestineResist/17900)). Recently, the operations have escalated in quantity and quality, causing significant damage to the US and affecting the zionist entity it guards. These operations are carried out explicitly in support of Gaza as part of a support front such as Yemen’s and Lebanon’s.

While the Islamic Resistance in Iraq is not the PMF, there is overlap in groups, such as Kataeb Hezbollah (which holds “israeli” spy Elizabeth Tsurkov prisoner, Al-Nujaba Movement (to which Abu Taqwa belongs), and others, operating outside the official PMF framework. Both PMF and Islamic Resistance in Iraq have offered martyrs during Al-Aqsa Flood, with eight PMF members ascending on November 22nd, and five Islamic Resistance cadre ascending on December 5th.

And soon after this address:

In continuation of our path in resisting the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region, and in response to the massacres of the zionist entity against our people in Gaza, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacked, with drones, two American occupation bases deep in Syria, namely Al-Tanf Base and Al-Shaddadi Base.