The move brings to a close more than two decades of American military presence in the western part of the country.
An initial plan for US withdrawal from the base stipulated that hundreds of troops would leave by September 2025, with the rest departing by the end of 2026.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers disembark from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq in July 2023. A “small force” of American troops will ...
U.S. personnel were injured in a ballistic missile attack on Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on Saturday, two U.S. officials said. The attack was one of the largest-scale ballistic missile attacks to date ...
Iraq announced the complete withdrawal of troops from the international coalition led by the US from all military bases in the country.
The US-led international coalition to fight ISIS will stay at Iraq's Ain Al Asad Airbase to support operations against the extremist group in neighbouring Syria, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani ...
Iraq’s government said Sunday that U.S. forces have completed a “full withdrawal” from military facilities within the country’s federal territory, which excludes the semiautonomous Kurdistan region ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States has quietly completed its withdrawal from al-Asad air base in Iraq’s Anbar Province, the Iraq Defense Ministry ...