Biden meets al-Maliki to discuss US troop withdrawal
BAGHDAD: US Vice President-elect Joe Biden met Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss withdrawing US troops, seen as…
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