Article snippet: The surgical strike that took out Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani has torpedoed the U.S.-Iraqi relationship, moving Baghdad closer to Tehran and threatening the Trump administration’s strategic position in the region. In response to the killing of Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq’s government is threatening to kick U.S. forces out of the country, a development that would risk Washington losing key gains in the fight against ISIS, its stated mission since returning to Iraq in 2014. On Sunday, Iraq’s caretaker parliament voted on a nonbinding resolution calling for the removal of U.S. forces and an end to the security and military cooperation on counterterrorism operations and the fight against ISIS. Sunni and Kurdish members of parliament abstained from the vote but did not publicly support the controversial U.S. attack that has thrown the region into upheaval and unpredictability. The U.S. is unlikely to be forced to leave Iraq in the immediate future given that the caretaker government in Baghdad has no power to pass legislation. Secretary of Defense MORE, meanwhile, threatened sanctions against Iraq if U.S. troops are forced to leave under any circumstances that aren’t “friendly” or if the American presence is threatened. “If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. Trump went further, threatening ... Link to the full article to read more