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The withdrawal of the United States troops from Iraq began in December 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was mostly completed by December 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War. The number of U.S. military forces in Iraq peaked at 170,300 in November 2007.
On November 27, 2008, the Iraqi Parliament ratified a Status of Forces Agreement with the United States, establishing that U.S. combat forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011, but allowing for further negotiation if the Iraqi Prime Minister believes Iraq is ...
- January 2020: Non-Binding Iraqi Vote For Troop Withdrawal
- March – May 2020: Base Transfers and Covid-19 Pandemic
- June 2020 – January 2021: American–Iraqi "Strategic Dialogue"
- July 2021 – December 2021: End of U.S. Combat Mission
On 5 January 2020, the Council of Representatives of Iraq voted to obligate Iraq's government "to work towards ending the presence of all foreign troops on Iraqi soil." It was unclear if the resolution was binding and no timetable for withdrawal was set. Qais Khazali, leader of Iranian proxy group Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, stated "If [US troops] don't lea...
On 11 March and 14 March 2020, Camp Taji was attacked, supposedly by Kata'ib Hezbollah, killing three Coalition personnel. The United States responded to the first attack on Camp Taji by targeting five Kata'ib Hezbollah weapon storage facilities with air strikes. On 19 March 2020, the al-Qaim base near the Iraq–Syria border was transferred from the...
By June 2020, the Iraqi government had yet to act on the January parliamentary resolution to call for the departure of foreign troops, and the Iraqi military was reportedly reluctant to have U.S. forces leave altogether. On 1 June Spain announced its intentions to withdraw from its primary base in Iraq by the end of July. The United States and Iraq...
On 26 July 2021, during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi's visit to the White House during the fourth and final round of "strategic dialogue", U.S. president Joe Bidenannounced that the American combat mission in Iraq would conclude by the end of the year and that the remaining U.S. troops in the country would shift to an advisory role, "to ...
- 20 March 2020-9 December 2021 [1][2]
- Iraq
Oct 7, 2009 · The withdrawal of significant numbers of U.S. military personnel before the Iraqi elections could increase security risks during a time of high tensions in Iraq. This letter was prepared by Francis Lussier of CBOs National Security Division.
This article examines the 2011 withdrawal of United States’ regular military forces from Iraq in the context of Gen. David H. Petraeus strategy of the surge and co-opting ‘ ’ Sunni fighters against forces aligned with al-Qāʿidah through brokering tribal alliances and adding members of the maja lis al-sahwah ( awakening councils ‘ ) to government...
Dec 14, 2011 · President Barack Obama is to visit a military base here in North Carolina to thank the troops for their service in Iraq, and make a historic declaration: The war is over, and in a few days'...
Dec 15, 2011 · July 22, 2008 - The U.S. military says the last of five extra combat brigades sent to Iraq in 2007 have withdrawn, leaving just under 147,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
