WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday that the United States would "no longer help Iraq" if former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki returns to power.

Due to al-Maliki's policies and ideologies, "if elected, the United States of America will no longer help Iraq," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Al-Maliki, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2014, was nominated on Saturday by Iraq's main Shiite bloc in parliament to form a government.

Trump's latest remarks signal a new intervention in another country's politics, said a New York Times report.