America leaves. The armed groups that wanted America gone still keep their weapons.
- The Pentagon said the last troops and gear left Erbil Air Base.
- Operation Inherent Resolve’s Iraq chapter is closed after 12 years.
- About 2,500 Americans had been the recent ceiling.
- Roughly 1,500 were left in the Kurdish north.
- Those bases took regular fire after the U.S. and Israel opened the Iran war on Feb. 28.
- Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi called it a “new phase.”
- Iraq named four holidays as Days of Sovereignty.
- The 2024 deal paired the exit with militia disarmament by Sept. 30.
- That date slipped to June 2027.
- CENTCOM said the anti-ISIS headquarters moves to Jordan.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/middleeast/us-military-withdrawal-iraq-intl
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5983426/u-s-withdraws-final-troops-from-iraq
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