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- Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise trip to Iraq on Saturday to reassure the US's Kurdish allies.
- It's the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of US forces in Syria two months ago.
- Pence told reporters that Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish allies "who fought alongside us" had no doubts about the US commitment to them.
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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence worked to reassure the United States' Kurdish allies in an unannounced trip to Iraq on Saturday, the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of US forces in Syria two months ago.
Flying in a C-17 military cargo aircraft, Pence landed in Irbil, capital of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, to meet with Iraqi Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani.
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