US Military Ready to Abandon Decades-Long Involvement in The Country of Iraq

Iraq faces two deadlines at the end of the month: the conclusion of a decades-long US military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed organisations. The US evacuation is beginning, and officials say the hundreds of troops left in northern Iraq will leave by September 30.

The Iraqi government has connected the US pullout to an ultimatum for militias to surrender their weapons. However, most have said they have no plans to do so. That raises significant concerns about what the day after will look like in Iraq. Since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have assaulted U.S.-linked sites both inside and outside Iraq.

They have also worked with Yemen’s Houthi rebels to assault Saudi Arabia. With the battle between the United States and Iran raging, Tehran is unlikely to give up its influence in neighbouring Iraq. U.S. authorities are concerned about the militias’ ability to carry out other attacks, but not enough to postpone their departure. In 2003, US troops invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

They left in 2011, but three years later, Iraqi authorities requested a smaller US-led operation to combat the Islamic State organization, which had swept through Iraq, taking vast areas of land. With the group reduced to dispersed sleeper cells as a result of involvement by Iran-backed militias and the US-led coalition, the US and Iraq agreed to end the mission in 2024.

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