Salahaddin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRP.org) – President Masoud Barzani met with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Mr. Steven Beecroft on Saturday. They discussed the political and security developments in Iraq and the recent events in the provinces of Mosul, Salahaddin, and elsewhere in the country. They both agreed that to overcome the major security crisis currently facing the country the political process must be put back on the right track.

In this meeting, President Barzani stated that the current crisis is the result of the wrong policies of the Iraqi government in the past few years, and emphasized that any new political solutions must be based on the new reality on the ground.