Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on 6 Feb that there was a plan to reduce U.S. forces in the country gradually, but that they were needed to prevent a vacuum forming and to prevent infiltration by Islamic State.
An Iraqi government spokesman said on 5 Feb that U.S. forces, who number more than 5,000, had begun reducing their numbers but some would remain.
But two major Iraqi Shi'ite groups backed by Iran are demanding all U.S. forces leave Iraq, opposing plans by Baghdad and Washington to keep some there for training and advisory purposes.
The U.S.-led international military coalition helped Iraqi forces recapture territory taken by Islamic State in 2014 and 2015, providing air and artillery support in the battle for Mosul, and trained tens of thousands of elite Iraqi soldiers.
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