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Later, in an address to a Washington think-tank community,

al Abidi said that Trump has assured Iraq's government of greater US support as it confronts ISIS and stabilises the country.

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al Abidi said that Trump has assured Iraq's government of greater US support as it confronts ISIS and stabilises the country.

"We have been given assurances that the support will not only continue but will accelerate," he said in his address to the US Institute of Peace, a top American think-tank.

However, the US support is unlikely to include the United States "sending troops in large numbers" to Iraq.

"I think this administration wants to be head to head with terrorism, to be more engaged. We are not talking about (US) military confrontation as such in Iraq," he said.

According to al-Abidi, Iraq's forces "are at the last stage of liberating" the city of Mosul and its province from fighters of the Islamic State, or ISIS.

Later this week, the Iraqi Prime Minister will also attend the March 22-23 conference hosted by the State Department to frame strategy for the 68-member Global Coalition to Counter ISIS.

"We need to have a plan together. We shouldn't be derailing the whole thing" or losing focus against ISIS because of clashes among the region's major actors," he said.

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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