A high-ranking Iraqi military official says the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is going to pull out of more bases and give back the sites to the country’s government forces within the next few days, and that there is a timetable for the handover.
“There is a timetable between the Iraqi government and the international coalition forces for the latter to hand over the sites. Coalition forces lately pulled out of their Iraqi base this month, and handed it over to Iraqi security forces in Nineveh (province),” Spokesman for the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC), Major General Tahseen al-Khafaji, said in an exclusive interview with the official Iraqi News Agency on Tuesday.
He added that the Nineveh base “was providing support to the forces at the time of battles to liberate Nineveh [from the clutches of Daesh terror outfit]. Multinational forces, including Canadian, Belgian, French and American troops, were operating at the site.”
Khafaji stressed that the Nineveh Operations Command possesses proven capability to deal with any terrorist threat to the province.
He pointed out that the infrastructure left at the Nineveh base will contribute to the development of the capabilities of Iraqi security forces.
Meanwhile, Commander of Nineveh Operations Command, Nouman al-Zobaie, emphasized that his fellow forces are fully prepared to ensure security in the province following the withdrawal of US-led forces.
On Monday, the media office of the JOC said in a statement that the US-led military alliance had handed over another base in Nineveh province to the Ministry of Defense.
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