U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday he hadn't received a request from Iraq to withdraw U.S. troops from the country and noted that an Iraqi parliamentary resolution requesting a pullout was non-binding.
"To the best of my knowledge, I haven't received any communication from (Iraq's prime minister) or the Iraqi government about the legislation, or about an order or a request to withdraw U.S. forces," Esper told a news conference at the Pentagon.
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