Urgent – Jaafary: Iraq rejects placing foreign military bases in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafary pointed out on Monday “Iraq did not ask from the International Coalition, including Britain, to place foreign military bases on ground within the course of fighting the terrorist organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.”

Jaafary assured during a press conference held in Baghdad with his British counterpart, Philip Hammond, that “Iraq’s demand from the international coalition was limited to arming the Iraqi security Forces and providing intelligence information.” /End/