U.S. Forces With­draw From Iraq After 23 Years

More than two decades after the Unit­ed States invad­ed Iraq, Amer­i­can forces have com­plet­ed their with­draw­al from the coun­try, mark­ing the end of the Oper­a­tion Inher­ent Resolve mis­sion in Iraq.
U.S. Cen­tral Com­mand (CENTCOM) announced Wednes­day that Amer­i­can forces and equip­ment had com­plet­ed an “order­ly depar­ture” from Erbil Air Base in north­ern Iraq, for­mal­ly end­ing the U.S. mil­i­tary mis­sion there.
The with­draw­al is part of a planned tran­si­tion toward a bilat­er­al U.S.-Iraq defense rela­tion­ship. While Amer­i­can forces are no longer sta­tioned in Iraq as part of Oper­at …