U.S. vice president Biden visits Baghdad for breaking Iraq' s political deadlock

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday arrived in Baghdad for a visit to break the country's ongoing political crisis.

According to local Iraqia television, he is scheduled to meet with Iraqi top officials in the following days in order to urge them to form a government nearly six months after the parliamentary elections were held in the country.

Biden's visit came just one day before the U.S. troops prepare to formally end its combat mission in Iraq. He is expected to emcee Wednesday a formal ceremony of change command in Baghdad, in which current top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq Raymond Ordierno, would be replaced by his successor.

As the U.S. combat troops withdraw from Iraq, continued violence and waves of high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the country after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections on March 7.

Source: Xinhua