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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]
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]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year, with U.S. troops departing some bases that they have long occupied during a two-decade-long military presence in the country.
The plan, which has been broadly agreed but requires a final go-ahead from both capitals and an announcement date, would see hundreds of troops leave by September 2025, with the remainder ...
There have been two formal withdrawals of American military personnel from Iraq since the 2003 American invasion. Each marked the end of a "major combat mission" there. Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011) Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2020–2021)
The back-and-forth clash was the latest demonstration of how the Israel-Hamas war is rippling across the Middle East, creating turmoil that has turned U.S. troops at bases in Iraq and Syria into ...
Roughly 900 US troops have been deployed or are deploying to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region after a series of attacks on coalition bases that resulted in minor injuries for ...
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 Gaza 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 November ...