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3/23/15 8:19 AM EDT
President Barack Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the White House on April 14, the administration announced Monday.
Al-Abadi has expressed frustration in what he called “slowness” of the U.S.-led international coalition in providing military support against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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“I’m confident that he’s the right person to help work with a broad-based coalition of like-minded Iraqis and that they will be successful,” Obama said after meeting al-Abadi at the United Nations last September, emphasizing that change would not happen overnight in the country.
The prime minister has spoken a few times with Vice President Joe Biden as well, most recently earlier this month when delegations discussed ongoing military operations in Iraq and reaffirmed security cooperation.
The Iraqi fight to reclaim the central city of Tikrit from ISIL has slowed in recent days, as concern grows in Washington and elsewhere over the role of Iranian-backed Shiite militias against the terrorist group.
Former CIA Director David Petraeus last week called those militias a bigger threat to Iraq than ISIL, arguing that the Iranians are “ultimately part of the problem, not the solution” to regional strife.
The National Security Council also announced that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the White House on April 28, with a state dinner to follow that evening.
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3/23/15 8:19 AM EDT
President Barack Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the White House on April 14, the administration announced Monday.
Al-Abadi has expressed frustration in what he called “slowness” of the U.S.-led international coalition in providing military support against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Story Continued Below
“I’m confident that he’s the right person to help work with a broad-based coalition of like-minded Iraqis and that they will be successful,” Obama said after meeting al-Abadi at the United Nations last September, emphasizing that change would not happen overnight in the country.
The prime minister has spoken a few times with Vice President Joe Biden as well, most recently earlier this month when delegations discussed ongoing military operations in Iraq and reaffirmed security cooperation.
The Iraqi fight to reclaim the central city of Tikrit from ISIL has slowed in recent days, as concern grows in Washington and elsewhere over the role of Iranian-backed Shiite militias against the terrorist group.
Former CIA Director David Petraeus last week called those militias a bigger threat to Iraq than ISIL, arguing that the Iranians are “ultimately part of the problem, not the solution” to regional strife.
The National Security Council also announced that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the White House on April 28, with a state dinner to follow that evening.
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