The Iraqi parliament passes a resolution requiring the release of foreign qat

The Iraqi parliament passed a resolution obliging the government to work to end the presence of any foreign forces on Iraqi soil, and this came during an extraordinary session in the presence of the caretaker head, Adel Abdul-Mahdi.

The session came at the request of the caretaker government and balanced political blocs, but other blocs announced their boycott. The session was held after being three years late.

The discussion of removing the 5,200 American forces from the country comes after the assassination of the head of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, along with eight others.

Parties within Parliament are seeking to endorse the demand for the departure of US forces from the country, and may be followed by a demand for the departure of all foreign forces operating in the framework of the US-led international coalition.

Representatives considered that those who oppose the vote on the departure of American forces are "traitors."

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Baghdad, Samer Yusef, stated that the session was late, and that it was Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi who would preside over it after reports of his absence.

He added that the majority of Sunni representatives are not present, and the Kurdistan Alliance (the group of Kurdish blocs present in the Iraqi parliament) announced its boycott of the session.

And the reporter quoted deputies from the Shiite blocs, especially from the Al-Fateh bloc and others, that they hope to achieve a quorum for the parliament session today so that legislation will be passed to remove the American forces.

"There is no need for the presence of American forces after the defeat of the Islamic State," said Ammar al-Shibli, a deputy and member of the Legal Committee in Parliament. "We have our armed forces and they are able to protect the country."

Many Iraqis, even those opposed to Soleimani, expressed their anger at Washington for killing the two men on Iraqi soil and dragging their country into a new conflict.

Since the killing, rival Shiite political leaders have called for the expulsion of US forces from Iraq, in a gesture of unusual unity between the various factions for months.

During the funeral of Soleimani Gethmani and the engineer, Hadi al-Amiri - who is the head of the Al-Fateh bloc in parliament and the most prominent candidate to succeed the engineer - pledged to work to remove US forces from Iraq.

A vote to expel American forces needs for a majority in parliament to pass a law that obliges the government to ask them to leave.

Al-Jazeera Net reporter transferred a text to the Al-Fateh parliamentary bloc proposal for a draft resolution that would require the removal of US forces in order to vote on it. The text includes four points, the most prominent of which is the obligation of the Iraqi government to cancel the request for assistance submitted by it to the international coalition to fight against the organization of the state, and the government to announce the numbers of foreign technicians and trainers it needs, their whereabouts, tasks and the duration of their contracts.