The parliament of Iraq voted to remove the U.S. military from its country after President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week.
On Sunday, the parliament held a special session to issue a response to Soleimani’s death, according to the Associated Press. The body voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for the expulsion of the U.S. military from Iraq.
Currently, there are nearly 5,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq working with coalition forces in the region. The resolution requests that all U.S. troops be removed from Iraq, just as Trump ordered the deployment of 3,000 additional troops to the region.
The resolution was carried by the Shiite majority in parliament, and many of the Sunni and Kurdish members declined to attend the vote because they disagree with the expulsion of U.S. forces in the country.
In response, the U.S. announced that it would stop all training of Iraqi military members in the coalition. Instead, those who were training Iraqi fighters will be re-positioned to help fortify U.S. bases in Iraq ahead of any actions Iran may take to avenge Soleimani.
A top military adviser to the Supreme Leader of Iran vowed that they would attack U.S. military bases in the region in response to Soleimani’s death. It is not yet clear where those attacks are slated to take place, though much of the conflict that led to Soleimani’s death took place in Iraq. One Iranian lawmaker even suggested striking the White House.
