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Iraq offers legal assurances to US advisers
Muhammad Iqbal
23 Jun, 2014
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![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2014/06/houseoo.jpg">WASHINGTON: Iraq has offered legal guarantees to shield US special forces operatives sent to the country as advisers to assess how to help its forces battling a lightning advance by Sunni radicals.</P><P>The White House said on Monday that the guarantee had been provided by the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a formal diplomatic note to Washington.</P><P>The failure of Iraq's parliament to endorse a Status of Forces deal with Washington led to the complete exodus of all American troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 despite earlier hopes that a US training force would stay behind after the nine-year war.</P><P>Many of Obama's political opponents say their exit fostered a power vacuum which the Sunni group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has exploited in a rapid advance in which it has seized key cities including Mosul and Tikrit.</P><P>Acceptable assurances:</P><P>)