Maliki and General Dempsey agree to hold joint military exercises and discuss warplanes deal
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, the possibility of assisting U.S. forces to Iraqi forces in the training process and to hold military exercises in common, in addition to processing the Iraqi army with sophisticated weapons.
A source in the prime minister in a statement (of the Agency news), The Maliki and Dimpsaa exchanged dialogue on common interests between Baghdad and Washington, and to expand military ties, also agreed to hold military exercises joint under a plan to train Iraqi forces.
added, that al-Maliki and Gen. Dempsey discussed developments in the region, and especially what is happening in Syria, as Nafsha plane deal warfare that Iraq seeks to buy them.
arrived U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey Tuesday to Baghdad in the first visit to the highest-ranking U.S. troops to Iraq, since the withdrawal of troops from the country last year.
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