Deputy Secretary Burns' Travel to Iraq (June 28-30)

June 30, 2013

Deputy Secretary Burns' Travel to Iraq

Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
June 30, 2013

Deputy Secretary Bill Burns traveled June 28-30 to Baghdad, Iraq for meetings with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders. These meetings allowed them to discuss the full range of bilateral and regional issues, including the ongoing crisis in Syria. 

In all

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The United States may begin sending small teams of U.S. military trainers to Lebanon and Iraq in the near future to help local military forces deal with spillover from the war in Syria, a top general announced Wednesday.

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