Iraq cool to Iranian offers of military cooperation - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

Nov 20, 2020

Members of the Iraqi security forces stand guard during the reopening of the Iraqi capital Baghdad's central Tahrir Square on October 31, 2020. - Iraqi authorities reopened Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, in a sign of easing tensions a year after the launch of an anti-government protest movement. Protests demanding a total overhaul of the ruling class lost momentum then ground to a halt in the spring due to the coronavirus crisis and rising US-Iran tensions. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP) (Photo by SABAH ARA — Members of the Iraqi security forces stand guard during the reopening of Baghdad's central Tahrir Square, easing tensions a year after the launch of an anti-government protest movement, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2020. — Sabah Arar/AFP via Getty Images

A picture taken on January 13, 2020, during a press tour organised by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows US army drones at the Ain al-Asad airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. - Iran last week launched a wave of missiles at the sprawling Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and a base in Arbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, both hosting US and other foreign troops, in an operation it dubbed a response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the h

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