Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, according to Premier Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, but he adds that will not work so long as there is a US-led coalition in the country.
The United States will not change its decision to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia, a high-ranking US official told a special online briefing.
The political professor of the University of Northern Iowa says that a larger history of the US in the Middle East can certainly be connected to a variety of problems in the region.
Missile defense batteries have intercepted a rocket attack on the Ain al-Assad base in the west of Iraq, which hosts U.S. troops, an Iraqi army source said on Tuesday.
The United States launched air raids in Iraq late on Thursday, US officials said, directing them at four locations of Shia militia members believed to be responsible for an earlier rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad.
US President Trump has admitted that the US troops in Syria have the country's oil, the Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif has said in a tweet.
A political science professor at John Hopkins University John Harper believes that there is a 50/50 chance of a Democrat will defeat Trump in November.
"Trump trusts his gut more than his brain. As a result, many of his decisions are based on impulse rather than on the basis of a worked-out rational strategic plan," an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago Marvin Zonis told ILNA.
“The most important thing is for the US and Iran to start working toward a dialogue,” a Professor of Political Science and Director of Security Studies told ILNA.
