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 ...
US officials: Troops to leave Iraq in 18 monthsANNE GEARANPAMELA HESS
The mandate to leave Iraq ought to be clear, but not everyone is eager to see U.S. troops depart. Detractors are throwing all shapes of proverbial pasta at the wall, searching for anti-withdrawal arguments that will stick. Perhaps inevitably, given the recent anniversary of 9/11, they have...
President Trump is defending the U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian General Qassam Suleimani. Mr. Trump also said that the U.S. will pull troops out of Iraq "at some point," but now is not that point. CBS News senior investigative correspon
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"I don't know what that letter is ... We're trying to find out where that's coming from, what that is. But there's been no decision made to leave Iraq. Period." The letter caused confusion about the future of US forces in Iraq. The United States has about 5,000 US troops in...
When the US military withdraws completely by the end of the year per President Obama’s announcement today, the State Department will take over the mission in 2012. Here’s a snapshot of what the American presence in Iraq will look like once the troops are gone: ...
How many troops have been in Afghanistan in the past 20 years? The number has fluctuated quite a bit. President Barack Obama came to office promising to refocus the US military there over Iraq, where Bush also invaded. At times during the Obama administration there were about 100,000 US tro...
Iraqi Shiite Refugees Say West Has Forgotten Them as Last US Troops Leave Iraq, 600,000 More Shiites May Flee to Iran. as Iraq Calls on the United Nations to Ease Economic Sanctions, Shiite Refugees in Iran Accuse the International Community of Refusing to Support Them By Claude van England...
AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. has started to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq following Baghdad's declaration of victory over the Islamic State group last year, an Iraqi government spokesman and Western contractors said Monday.