{"id":1870057,"date":"2023-03-07T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20-year-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:29:34","slug":"austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20-year-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20-year-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin makes unannounced visit to Iraq as 20-year anniversary of invasion approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20-year-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1870057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_54618782\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"UN watchdog: Iran may have enough nuclear material for multiple bombs\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"World leaders can't stop Iran from stockpiling enough nuclear material to build weapons of mass destruction, according to the United Nations's lead nuclear watchdog. \"This is going to happen, because they continue to enrich, in a quite sustained way,\" International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi told reporters Monday. \"And so, it's a matter of time, where they get to one or more so-called 'significant quantities' ... which is the quantity ... for which the development of a nuclear weapon cannot be excluded.\"\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M59S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-06-07 16:20:19\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/thumb\/\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1027697.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_54618782\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1027697\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of Defense <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lloyd-austin\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> Unannounced Visit to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iraq\">Iraq<\/a>He also reiterated the U.S. commitment to the region&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Austin is the most high-ranking Cabinet official who has visited the country since the beginning of the Revolution. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\">Biden administration<\/a>. He was able to speak with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, and is likely to have meetings with other top officials during his stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/austin-embarks-middle-east\">LLOYD AUSTIN EMBARKS ON TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST TO REASSURE ALLIES<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/07\/politics\/lloyd-austin-iraq-trip\/index.html\">said<\/a> In a statement, he said that he was in Iraq. &#8220;reaffirm the US-Iraq strategic partnership as we move toward a more secure, stable and sovereign Iraq,&#8221; According to the media pool.<\/p>\n<p>Austin&#8217;s trip comes just weeks ahead of the 20-year mark of U.S. invading Iraq in 2003. That invasion resulted in the fall of Saddam Hussein, and ultimately the Fall of Baghdad. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pentagon-chief-makes-unannounced-trip-iraq-20-year-anniversary-invasion-nears-2023-03-07\/\">deaths<\/a> The Costs of War Project at Brown University shows that there are between 185,000 to 208,000 Iraqi civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Defense secretary is on a three-country trip, which includes stops in Jordan and Egypt, as well as Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He is on his way to assure U.S. allies that America&#8217;s interests in the Middle East are being reaffirmed. &#8220;remains co<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/secretary-defense-austin-suprise-visit-iraq-biden-news\">Austin makes unannounced visit to Iraq as 20-year anniversary of invasion approaches<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[9824,4143,5629,9230,10889,17259,20813,7241],"class_list":["post-1870057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-20-year","tag-anniversary","tag-approaches","tag-austin","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-unannounced","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}