Last US Troops Withdraw from Iraq, Ending 23-Year War #shorts

Last US Troops Withdraw from Iraq, Ending 23-Year War. Here's what each side is saying, and what none of them are telling you.

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📰 THE FULL STORY

On Wednesday, the final US soldiers departed Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq. Their exit closed more than two decades of US intervention that began with the 2003 invasion. The withdrawal fulfills a 2024 deal negotiated by the Biden administration to conclude Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq.

According to Reason, the deal followed over 60 drone and missile attacks launched by Iranian-aligned militias on US bases in Iraq and Syria between October 2023 and February 2024. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi called it a new day, with Iraq free of foreign military presence and full national sovereignty restored.

Reason reports that Operation Inherent Resolve remains active, now headquartered in Jordan. About 50,000 US troops were still stationed across the broader region as of August.

Experts cited noted the PMF militias, numbering around 238,000, remain a chronic threat to Iraqi sovereignty and a concern for the Kurdistan Regional Government. Left outlets framed the moment as the end of the Iraq war.

⬅️ HOW THE LEFT COVERS IT
Left coverage foregrounds the symbolic closure of a conflict that began under the Bush administration, treating the departure as the definitive end of a long occupation. The framing emphasizes finality and the recurring nature of US involvement in Iraq. It downplays the operational details that other sides stress, including the roughly 50,000 US troops that remain across the broader region. (Mother Jones, Vox)

⬛ HOW THE CENTER COVERS IT
Center coverage situates the Iraq withdrawal against a wider regional picture, foregrounding that thousands of US troops were being deployed to the Middle East as Trump weighed strikes on Iran. The institutional read treats the exit from Iraq as one piece of an active and shifting US military posture rather than a clean end to involvement. This context about escalation elsewhere is what partisan framings about closure tend to skip. (Financial Times)

➡️ HOW THE RIGHT COVERS IT
Right coverage treats the Iraq exit as a welcome but incomplete step, pressing the question of when US forces will leave the rest of the Middle East. It foregrounds the continuity of Operation Inherent Resolve, now based in Jordan, and the roughly 50,000 troops still in the region, alongside the PMF militias numbering around 238,000 that remain a chronic threat. This emphasis on what remains cuts against the war-is-over framing used elsewhere. (Reason)

⚠️ WHAT THEY AREN'T TELLING YOU
Reason reports that Operation Inherent Resolve has not ended but relocated its headquarters to Jordan, with about 50,000 US troops still stationed across th