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As of April 2020, U.S.-led coalition forces handed back four military bases to Iraqi forces. [30] The U.S. ended its combat mission in Iraq on 9 December 2021, leaving 2,500 troops in the country to serve as trainers and advisors to Iraqi security forces.
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Introduction US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Background Previous U.S. involvement Old enemies ISIL advances in Northern Iraq Internet beheading video campaign 2014–2015; U.S.-led coalition against ISIL U.S. naming controversy Support of the Iraqi government Building Partner Capacity Military aid to the Kurds U.S. troop presence
- Iraq
By 2020, Airwars had recorded a five-year total of 14,771 US-led Coalition strikes in Iraq and 19,829 in Syria and investigated 2,921 alleged civilian casualty incidents, estimating 8,259–13,135 civilian deaths, of whom around 2,000 were children, although the Coalition itself estimated just 1,377 or 1,417 civilian deaths.
About: On 15 June 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched in response to the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. At the invitation of the Iraqi government, American troops went to assess Iraqi forces and the threat ...
- How The Counter-ISIS Campaign in Iraq Began
- Current U.S. Involvement in Iraq
- The Legal Basis For U.S. Operations in Iraq
- Counter-ISIS Operations
- Operations Targeting Iranian-Backed SMGs
In 2011, President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq, fulfilling his campaign promise to end the Iraq War that began under the Bush administration in 2003. But just three years later, U.S. troops returned, responding to the rapid advances and widely publicized atrocities of ISIS. At the head of a coalition of a...
In part responding to the growing Iraqi calls for withdrawal, the U.S. formally ended its latest combat mission in Iraq in December 2021. The decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq was announced by President Joe Biden in July 2021 following a series of strategic dialogues between the U.S. administration and the Iraqi government, headed b...
Against this backdrop, questions as to the legality of continuing U.S. operations in Iraq are particularly salient. While operations against ISIS in Iraq retain a strong legal basis in both international and Iraqi domestic law, these bases do not extend to a conflict between the United States, Iran, and its proxies. And, despite the war on ISIS’s s...
International Law. Compared with the 2003 invasion, U.S. operations in Iraq against ISIS have a strong basis in international law. From the outset of the counter-ISIS campaign in the summer of 2014, Iraqi government consenthas been the legal cornerstone of U.S. and coalition operations in Iraq. U.N. Security Council backing, under UNSC resolutions ...
International Law. Up to this point, this article has considered the legal basis for U.S. operations in Iraq against ISIS. But since at least 2017 – and particularly from 2019 onwards – the United States has become increasingly drawn into a series of tit-for-tat strikes with local SMGs and other Iranian proxies. U.S. forces and supporting elements ...
Mar 30, 2006 · U.S. Intervention in Iraqi Politics. Washington’s opposition to the Shiites’ nomination for prime minister highlights the growing strain in U.S.-Shiite relations in Iraq. The reaction of some ...
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For the closely related operations in Syria, see American-led intervention in Syria. American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Part of the 2014 military intervention against ISIL, Iraqi Civil War, and the Global War on Terrorism. An American F/A-18C Hornet aboard the USS George H.W. Bush prior to the launch of operations over Iraq.
