A US report said that Washington and Baghdad have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of US and other foreign forces from Iraq by the end of 2026.
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U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that hundreds of U.S. and coalition forces stationed in Baghdad, western Iraq and other parts of the country will leave by next September, a year followed by the withdrawal of troops in Erbil by the end of the following year.
The outlines of the withdrawal plan have been completed, the officials said, but some final details still need to be resolved, especially with other members of the international coalition. Even after 2026, a small U.S. force is likely to remain in advisory capacity for logistical support to U.S. forces stationed in Syria under a new bilateral security agreement with Iraq, the officials said.
A Pentagon official announced in early September that the United States was aware of the reports that appeared in the media about possible plans to withdraw American troops from Iraq, but the United States “is not yet ready to announce any specific dates.”
The US official’s statement came after Reuters published a report on the Iraqi government and the international coalition led by Washington against the terrorist organization ISIS reached an understanding on the plan to end its operations, and that the plan includes the exit of hundreds of international coalition forces from Iraq by September 2025, while the rest will withdraw in 2026.
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