US Not Serious in Talks about Withdrawing Troops from Iraq: Expert - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) – The US is trying to neuter the latest round of talks on potential withdrawal of its combat forces from Iraq, citing the history of Washington's refusal to commit to previous such negotiations, an expert warned.

"The Americans are trying to kill time and circumvent the Iraqi parliament's law mandating their troops' withdrawal," Iraqi security expert Sabah al-Akili told Press TV on Saturday.

He reminded that the United States had been holding on-again-off-again negotiations with Iraq towards the supposed pullout since 2008.

The talks have been allegedly focusing on a 21-article roadmap planning out the withdrawal, but Washington has avoided committing to most of the provisions of the plan, Akili noted.

The United States had reportedly taken all of its combat forces out of Iraq under former president Barrack Obama. The same American commander-in-chief, however, flooded the country with military forces as part of a Washington-led coalition again in 2014 under the pretext of battling the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh.