To be clear, while the Combined Joint Task Force military mission in Iraq will end by September 2025, the coalition's military mission operating in Syria will continue,
We’re not in a position right now to begin to either speculate or discuss exactly where we’re going to end up on all of it,
It's more than predictable that the next phase of this recovery will be a spillover into Iraq,
We are in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, and our partnership has led to the success of diminishing ISIS from what it was 10 years ago to where it is today,
The U.S. is not withdrawing from Iraq,
We refused his proposal regarding a third year,
The strongholds that they had in Iraq, they don't have those anymore, or not what they used to,
Our footprint is going to be changing,
We celebrate the coalition, ... this mission is finished."
The government of Iraq has expressed continual willingness and interest to solidify and expand that partnership, including on counterterrorism cooperation,
We've made it clear also that [the U.S.] will not hesitate to take all appropriate actions to protect our personnel,
This is an evolution of the military mission in Iraq,
That spillover across the river is now a very real reality,
We hope we will have a wider relationship, a more profound relationship with the United States,
I just want to foot stomp the fact that this is not a withdrawal. This is a transition. It's a transition from a coalition military mission to an expanded U.S.-Iraqi bilateral security relationship,