The United States and Iraq have not agreed to a post-2011 American military training mission, Iraqi officials said Friday, after the US defence chief said Baghdad had given the okay.
Officials differed, however, over whether talks had even begun between Baghdad and Washington over possibly keeping a contingent of American troops in the country beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal.
"The Iraqi government denies what the American defence secretary Mr Leon Panetta said about its acceptance to extend the presence of US forces in Iraq after 2011," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
Source : The Daily Star
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