Iraqi house speaker meets with the commander of US forces in the middle east

Iraqi House Speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi disused with the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the security file in Iraq and the repercussions of indiscriminate shelling on the city of Fallujah. Nujaifi said during the meeting, according to a statement for his office, that "The absence of political solutions encouraged the penetration of terrorist groups and raised rates of physical and human damage in the city of Fallujah." He said: " the management of the current crisis in the province of Anbar must include political, economic and security solutions ", stressing that" the continued indiscriminate shelling will lead to the complexity of the problem. The two parties discussed the file of the parliamentary elections and the risk of its delay and the need to hold them on schedule