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The last American troops left Iraq.

The Pentagon said Wednesday the withdrawal is finished. Twelve years against the Islamic State. The last air base was in the north. Sean Parnell called the departure orderly.

The Rocket News · Foreign Desk · BaghdadSeptember 30, 2026 · 3 min read

The Pentagon said U.S. troops and equipment had left the last American air base in northern Iraq.
The Pentagon said U.S. troops and equipment had left the last American air base in northern Iraq.

BAGHDAD — The United States has finished pulling its troops out of Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday that the troops and their equipment had completed an orderly departure from the last air base where they were still present, in the north. He called it the end of a 12-year campaign that defeated the Islamic State as an organized military threat in Iraq and across the region.

The Associated Press led with the statement. It did not name the base. The World desk files the departure, not a guess about what fills the ramp. The war page this morning is the child killed outside Kyiv.

This milestone reflects the success of a 12-year campaign that defeated ISIS as an organized military threat.

Wire and further reading: union-bulletin.com

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