Iraq announced Thursday that the planned withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist coalition would be “delayed”, citing “latest developments” amid heightened regional tensions. Baghdad and Washington have been engaged in months of talks over the presence of the coalition forces in Iraq, but no timeline for their gradual withdrawal has been made public. The United States has some 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group. Coalition forces have been targeted dozens of times with drones and rocket fire in both Iraq and Syria, as violen…