Qais al-Khazali, head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, said there's no longer a justification for thousands of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq after the DEASH has been defeated.

Al-Khazali said he was certain and confident there will be an Iraqi parliament vote calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. 

"I think more than half the members of parliament reject the presence of American military forces as a matter of principle," he said.

"If the United States wants to impose its presence by force, and to ignore the Iraqi constitution and parliament, Iraq can treat it the same way and drive it out by force, this is for sure. But the first phase is political," al-Khazali said.

"The draft law that we prepared for the removal of foreign powers from Iraq has reached the final stage," Iraqi Parliament Building Coalition MP Mansur Buayci said last week. Buayci added that the bill includes the removal of all military bases, including those in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Government.

There are currently about 5,000 US troops in Iraq.

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