BAGHDAD (AP) Iraq's new prime minister ruled out stationing U.S. ground troops in his country, chiding the international community Wednesday for inaction in Syria and lamenting the "puzzling" exclusion of neighboring Iran from the coalition being assembled to fight the Islamic State group. Haider al-Abadi has been embraced by the West as a more inclusive leader who might heal the internal rifts that have dismembered Iraq. But his forthrightness in an interview with The Associated Press his first with international media suggested a man capable of parting ways on vision and holding his ground. Al-Abadi praised the U.S. aerial campaign targeting the militants who have overrun much of...
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