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U.S. officials who briefed reporters Friday said the agreement will bring about a two-phase transition in the troops assigned to Iraq that began this month. In the first phase, which runs through September 2025, the coalition mission against ISIS will end and forces will leave some longstanding bases.
Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal. At the request of the Iraqi government in January 2024, [3] and amid rising regional tensions following the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza, the US and Iraq are set to begin negotiations to end US military presence in Iraq. [4]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
In December 2019, the United States began discussing with Iraq about plans to withdraw from certain bases. [12] That same month, the K-1 Air Base was attacked, resulting in one American fatality and six injuries. [6] The United States claimed that Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group, was responsible for the attack. [6]
The U.S. military will end its current mission in Iraq against the militant organization ISIS by the end of 2026 and transition to a new phase that likely will involve a significant withdrawal of ...
In response, the US has launched retaliatory airstrikes inside Iraq targeting the groups. The US has roughly 2,500 troops currently in Iraq who have been operating there in an “advise and assist ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Attacks on US bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria during the Israel–Hamas war Part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, the 2024 Syrian opposition offensive and the Eastern Syria insurgency in the Syrian Civil War Top: The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike groups in ...
Iraq wants troops from a U.S.-led military coalition to begin withdrawing in September and to formally end the coalition's work by September 2025, four Iraqi sources said, with some U.S. forces ...