{"id":32158,"date":"2019-02-07T05:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32158"},"modified":"2019-02-07T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:23:27","slug":"turkey-says-work-on-roadmap-for-syrias-manbij-has-accelerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32158","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says work on roadmap for Syria\u2019s Manbij has accelerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Iraq\u2019s most powerful Shiite cleric joined criticism on Wednesday of President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to keep US troops in Iraq to counter Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nIraq wants good relations with all its neighbors \u201cbased on mutual interests and without intervention in internal affairs,\u201d and \u201crejects being a launching pad for harming any other country,\u201d Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani said.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump said last week that US troops should remain at Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, which belongs to the Iraqi army.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe spent a fortune on building this incredible base,\u201d he said. \u201cWe might as well keep it. And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi reminded Trump that there were no US bases in Iraq and called on him to retract his statements.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Barham Saleh said Trump had not asked for permission to use Iraqi territory to monitor Iran. \u201cDon\u2019t burden Iraq with your own issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump\u2019s comments added to concerns in Iraq about America\u2019s long-term intentions, particularly after it withdraws its troops from Syria. However, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured allies on Wednesday that the pullout was only tactical and called on them to recommit to permanently defeating Daesh in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cUS troops withdrawing from Syria is not the end of America\u2019s fight,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cThe fight is one we will continue to wage alongside you. To that end, we ask that our coalition partners seriously and rapidly consider requests that will enable our efforts to continue. Those requests are likely to come very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Iraq\u2019s most powerful Shiite cleric joined criticism on Wednesday of President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to keep US troops in Iraq to counter Iran. Iraq wants good relations with all its neighbors \u201cbased on mutual interests and without intervention in internal affairs,\u201d and \u201crejects being a launching pad for harming any other country,\u201d Grand Ayatollah&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}