{"id":174713,"date":"2025-10-02T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174713"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:42:35","slug":"remember-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174713","title":{"rendered":"Remember Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-174714 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bob-294x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bob-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bob-327x333.png 327w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bob.png 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>This just in&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>US military starts drawing down mission in Iraq, officials say<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Qassim Abdul-Zahra<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD \u2014 The U.S. military has begun drawing down its mission in Iraq under an agreement inked with the Iraqi government last year, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Baghdad agreed last year to wind down the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by September 2025, with U.S. forces departing some bases where they have stationed troops during a two-decade-long military presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement Wednesday that the U.S. \u201cwill reduce its military mission in Iraq,\u201d reflecting \u201cour combined success in fighting ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move \u201cmarks an effort to transition to a lasting U.S.-Iraq security partnership in accordance with U.S. national interests, the Iraqi Constitution, and the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that Washington will maintain close coordination with Baghdad and coalition partners to ensure a \u201cresponsible transition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/10\/01\/us-military-starts-drawing-down-mission-in-iraq-officials-say\/\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minor details such as the number of troops withdrawn thus far, or when the transition would be completed are left unsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in&#8230; US military starts drawing down mission in Iraq, officials say By Qassim Abdul-Zahra &hellip; <a title=\"Remember Iraq?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174713\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remember Iraq?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":174714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}