Article 5MKJX Biden and Kadhimi seal agreement to end US combat mission in Iraq

Biden and Kadhimi seal agreement to end US combat mission in Iraq

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Joe Biden and the Iraqi prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, have sealed an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after troops were sent to the country.

Coupled with Biden's withdrawal of the last American forces in Afghanistan by the end of August, the Democratic president is completing US combat missions in the two wars that George W Bush began under his watch.

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