BAGHDAD: Leon Panetta arrived in Iraq on Sunday on his first trip there as US defence secretary, saying he would press Baghdad to decide on the future US military presence and to go after militants attacking US forces with Iranian rockets.
The United States is scheduled to withdraw all of its remaining 46,000 troops from Iraq by the end of this year, under the terms of a bilateral security pact despite US and Iraqi military concerns about expected gaps in security.
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