JUST IN: VP Pence and Mrs. Pence make unannounced trip to Iraq Saturday morning.
— in a visit with Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, and a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.
"My sense is that now with our troops in the region and in the air that Kurdish forces, Syrian Democratic Forces as well as the Kurdish population here in the region that the American people are with them," Pence told reporters."These are allies that fought shoulder to shoulder with us bravely to defeat ISIS."
The trip to Iraq was kept secret for security purposes, according to a traveling pool with the vice president. It is Pence’s first trip to Iraq as vice president. This is the first high profile visit from the Trump administration since the White House announced it would withdraw troops from Syria,The vice president arrived in the county with his wife, Karen Pence, where he was greeted by U.S. Ambassador Matthew Tueller, Lt. General Pat White, Colonel Daniel Leavitt, Sgt. Major Gerald Knight.
The surprise visit also comes on the heels of a tense few weeks for the White House as the House Intelligence Committee held a series of long public hearings as part of a broader
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