US-led anti-IS coalition ends Iraq combat mission: Baghdad

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BAGHDAD: The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has finished its combat mission in Iraq and will shift to a training and advisory role, Iraq\u0027s national security adviser said Thursday (Dec 9). The change of the mission for around 2,500 American troops stationed in the war-battered country by t

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BAGHDAD: The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has finished its combat mission in Iraq and will shift to a training and advisory role, Iraq's national security adviser said Thursday .

"We are officially announcing the end of the coalition forces' combat mission," national security adviser Qassem al-Aaraji wrote on Twitter. In effect, the about 2,500 US and 1,000 other coalition troops deployed in Iraq will remain there. They have been acting as advisers and trainers since mid-2020.It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 after offensives by Iraqi forces with the support of the coalition that has included more than 80 countries, among them Britain, France and several Arab nations.

Dozens of rocket and drone attacks have targeted American troops and interests in Iraq in recent months. Never claimed, these attacks are systematically blamed by the United States on pro-Iranian factions.

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ISIS is created by US. US is the real greatest threat to world peace is a fact. It becomes the shame of the world for promoting and enforce his value to others!

Actually it was pro-IS coalition..

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