US President Donald Trump said Friday Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi secured his candidacy “with our help,” adding that Washington supports him “very strongly.”
The United States’ Fiscal Year 2027 defense budget outlines a significant restructuring of its counter-ISIS campaign, including changes to financial assistance for Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraq.
The US State Department said Friday that dollar shipments into Iraq “were temporarily paused.”