Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump phoned the leaders of Iraq and Afghanistan on Thursday, but even amid their discussions about combating terrorists, his contentious immigration executive order remained a sticking point.
Trump, who is now three weeks into his role as commander in chief, intended during the course of its calls to make initial assessments of the men who have sometimes proved to be nettlesome partners to the US in its ongoing mission to rid the nations of militants.
However, Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi used a portion of his half-hour conversation to insist Trump remove Iraq from a listing of seven countries whose citizens he's tried to temporarily prohibition from entering the United States.
