A senior US administration official announced that US President Donald Trump will soon announce the withdrawal of more forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The official told reporters traveling with the president to expect an announcement on Wednesday regarding the withdrawal of the forces deployed in Iraq.

Trump - the candidate for a second term in November - had previously announced that he wanted to withdraw the soldiers stationed in Iraq, and during a meeting in August with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi he referred to this announcement;

But without setting a date.

The meeting came with the increase in attacks against US targets, in addition to the calls facing the Iraqi government to expel 5,000 American soldiers deployed in the country as part of efforts to combat armed groups.

The decision comes as Trump faces negative reactions from a report he says has spoken in derogatory terms about American war dead.

 Afghanistan

Trump follows Democratic rival Joe Biden in opinion polls, and the announcement and timing of the troop reduction may be to convince voters that he is fulfilling his promises to end what he described as America's "never-ending wars."

The US army withdrew from Iraq at the end of 2011, leaving only a small mission attached to the US embassy.

But other US forces deployed in the country years later to support Iraqi forces in fighting the Islamic State group, which launched a major attack in the summer of 2014.

For its part, the Pentagon announced that it wants to reduce the number of military personnel in Afghanistan to less than 5 thousand soldiers, against the background of peace talks between the Afghan parties.

The United States currently has 8,600 military personnel in Afghanistan.

An agreement signed in February in Doha between Washington and the Taliban provides for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2021, in exchange for the Taliban's pledge to join the peace track.