US ends combat mission in Iraq
President Biden says US forces will end their combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, but troops will continue to train and advise the Iraqi military.
President Joe Biden says US forces will end their combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, but troops will continue to train and advise the Iraqi military. There are currently 2,500 US soldiers in Iraq helping local forces counter what remains of the Islamic State group.
Caroline Rose is a senior analyst and head of the Power Vacuums Program at the Newlines Institute, a think-tank in Washington DC.
She told Newsday: 鈥淔or a lot of Iran-backed militias, this is still progress, because they still want the narrative that the US combat role has ended. However I think that for a lot of the more radicalized militias, they really will not stop this campaign until American forces leave. In the end there is going to be an eventual withdrawal from Iraqi soil.鈥�
She added that American forces had previously had to return to the country in 2014. 鈥淭here is that ghost from when the United States had to redeploy their forces back to Iraq because of the emergence of Isis.鈥�
Photo: An American soldier training Iraqi troops near Baghdad (Getty Images)
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