Letter on US pullout from Iraq a 'mistake'

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L), accompanied by Ebrahim Raisi, Chief Justice of Iran, in front of the coffin of slain Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. [AFP]

America's military strategy in Iraq was thrown into confusion Monday as the Pentagon admitted a letter from a general informing the Iraqi government of an imminent US troop pullout was sent by "mistake."