article_snippet.sent: Obama, who was elected on the back of a promise to end the war in Iraq, is limited by public aversion to U.S. entanglement in another regional conflict and congressional constraints on his budget authority.
article_snippet.sent: In August, President Barack Obama authorized the first U.S. air strikes on Iraq since the 2011 withdrawal of American troops.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama has also deployed about 3,000 American military forces to train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces to fight Islamic State.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama said after the meeting that Iraq would respect other countries' sovereignty and expected the same.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama also said President Barack Obama was eager to bring all of the fighters in Iraq under state control. '
article_snippet.sent: However, we do not accept any intervention in Iraq or any transgression on Iraqi sovereignty.
article_snippet.sent: This is a war that is fought with Iraqi blood with help from the coalition forces and regional countries.'
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. president in turn warned Iran that Iran fighters must respect Iraq's sovereignty and answer to Iran in Baghdad in the battle against ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: be more inclusive than a leader who has soughtto predecessor in governing Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: Iran-backed Shi'ite militias have played a major and growing role in battling the Sunni Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot also known as ISIL, that emerged from the chaos in Iraq and neighboring Syria and which swept through northern Iraq last June.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama has had to rely on Shi'ite militias, some of which are backed by Iran and advised by Iranian military officers, as Iraq's regular military deserted en masse last summer in the face of the Islamic State onslaught.
article_snippet.sent: Asked about Iranian involvement in Iraq, Obama said that Obama expected the neighbors to have an 'important relationship,' and recognized that the mobilization of Shi'ite militias had been necessary to counter ISIL's advance last year.
article_snippet.sent: But Obama added that any foreign-backed groups in Iraq should now be under President Barack Obama's control. '
article_snippet.sent: Once President Barack Obama took power ... from that point on, any foreign assistance that is helping to defeat ISIL has to go through the Iraqi government.
article_snippet.sent: That's how you respect Iraqi sovereignty,' Obama said. '
article_snippet.sent: Obama needs to be help that is not simply coordinated with the Iraqi government, but ultimately is answerable to the Iraqi government and is funneled through the chain of command.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Asked about military aid by a reporter after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi discussion with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, Obama hedged and said: 'I think this is why we are having the meeting 