Pro-Iran militia vows ‘decisive battle’ if US forces remain in Iraq after September

“If a single soldier remains after this date, we will not let him return safely; we will send him back to them as a lifeless corpse,” said Akram al-Kaabi.

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US-Peshmerga agreement set to expire amid Coalition withdrawal 

“The US Government's financial support to the Kurdistan Regional Government for the unification of the Peshmerga forces was always intended to be temporary.  It was intended to help the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs integrate and unify the different units, and if the US Government is now ending the payment of stipends to those forces, that is almost certainly because it judges the unification effort to be complete,” Ambassador Joey Hood, the former US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told The New Region.

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US has spent $25 billion on war with Iran: Pentagon

"So approximately at this day, we're spending about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury. Most of that is munitions," said US Under Secretary of Defense Jules Hurst.

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Syria says all US military bases handed over to government

"The extension of Syrian state authority over areas that had previously been outside its control including the northeast and border regions - is the result of the Syrian government's sustained efforts to unify the country within the framework of a single state," said the Syrian foreign ministry.

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US says KC-135 crashed in Iraq; pro-Iran Islamic Resistance claims responsibility

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed to have targeted two US KC-135 aircraft and successfully down one, while the US military insisted that the crash "was not due to hostile fire."

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Iraq between the quest to end US military presence and fear of Iran-backed militia dominance

In the wake of recent parliamentary elections, Iraq's next government must walk a treacherous political tightrope in the quest to balance popular sentiment calling for the end of a US military presence in the country and the possibility of expanded Iranian influence in their absence, with pro-Iran factions having achieved considerable success in the vote.

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US to maintain small contingent of military advisors in Iraq: PM Sudani

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said that a residual presence of US between 250 and 350 advisors will remain in Anbar province's Ain al-Asad base owing to "developments in Syria."

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Iraq at a crossroads as US accelerates troop withdrawal

The US has fast-tracked its troop withdrawal from key Iraqi bases, including Ain al-Asad and Victoria, while repositioning some forces to Erbil and neighboring countries, with experts raising fears of a security vacuum in their absence

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US military withdrawal from Iraq: Experts mull ISIS resurgence fears

WIth US forces set to depart from federal Iraqi territory this year and from the Kurdistan Region by September 2026, experts mull the possibility of a resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sunni-majority population centers, citing a lack of US air support and Sunni political disenchantment, while others dismiss the possibility.

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