A reliable and exceptionally knowledgeable source, who doesn't wish to be publicly identified, has confidentially informed me that an agreement has been reached in which U.S. troops will remain permanently in Iraq
but under exclusively NATO command, no longer under the command of CentCom (US Central Command in the Middle East).
On February 12th, NATO's defense ministers agreed to increase operations in Iraq. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been working ever since Fall of 2019 to prepare this plan (Trump had been pushing for it even before that), and Stoltenberg has consulted in Jordan with King Abdullah, and also in Brussels with Sabri Bachtabji, Tunisia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, because Tunisia is a key part of Trump's plan, to use other NATO nations as America's proxies controlling the Middle East.
On February 1st, pro-Muslim-Brotherhood Turkey agreed to the plan, and will be transferring jihadists (al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, plus some ISIS) from
Syria's jihadist-filled Idlib Province, into Libya, via Tunisia, so as to boost the forces of
Fayez al-Sarraj (former monarchist now backed by U.S., EU, and Turkey) to defeat the forces of
Khalifa Haftar (former Gaddafi-supporter, now in the Libyan civil war claiming as his objective the defeat of all jihadists there). Whereas U.S., EU, and Turkey, back al-Sarraj, Russia isn't involved in the war, except
trying to negotiate peace there, but
al-Sarraj rejects any involvement by Russia.
Turkey's interest in Libya is to win Libya's backing so as to be in a stronger position
to win turf in the emerging competition for rights to oil and gas under nearby parts of the Mediterranean Sea. To have Libya beholden to Turkey would be to increase the likelihood of Turkey's getting that offshore oil.
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