Hujjat al-Islam Hasan Salih stated, “The normalization of relations with the Zionist ‎regime represents the surrender of the dignity of the Islamic ummah because this ‎regime is trying to divide the Islamic countries.”‎

Iraqi President Barham Salim and his US counterpart Donald Trump have exchanged viewpoints about a reduction in the number of American military forces in the war-ravaged Arab country, weeks after a parliamentary bill demanded the withdrawal of all US-led foreign troops.