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    After the recent agreements... Is America serious about ending the military presence in Iraq?

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    Alsumaria News - Security

    The withdrawal of international coalition forces from Iraq is now imminent after sources announced to Reuters that American and Iraqi negotiators agreed to withdraw in two stages, the first in September 2025, and the second in late 2026.


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    The same sources indicated that "the plan has been largely agreed upon, and is awaiting final approval from the two countries and setting a date for its announcement." They added that the official announcement was initially scheduled to be issued weeks ago, but was postponed due to the regional escalation linked to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and also to settle some remaining details.



    The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and toppled the regime of late President Saddam Hussein before withdrawing in 2011, but returned at the head of the coalition in 2014 to fight the terrorist organization "ISIS".

    Behind the scenes
    In addition to Washington, other countries are participating in this coalition with hundreds of soldiers, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Under the plan, all forces will leave the Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province in western Iraq and reduce their presence in[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Significantly by September 2025.

    US and coalition forces are expected to remain in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region for about an additional year until the end of 2026, to arrange ongoing operations against ISIS in Syria.

    To clarify the details of the US-Iraqi agreement, military expert Safaa Al-Aasam confirmed that Iraq has decided to withdraw foreign forces within two years without any extension, speaking of the refusal[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]An American request for an extension.

    He said that Iraq is capable of filling the military vacuum in the event of the departure of foreign forces, eliminating ISIS elements, and confronting external threats if it is armed and equipped with intelligence, and "this will not happen unless there is American seriousness in ending the presence of its forces on Iraqi soil."

    According to Al-Aasam, what will remain of the coalition forces are trainers, advisors, supervisors, and experts, given that the bilateral relationship will continue, explaining that the terms of the agreement between[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Washington began in mid-2014 after the organization entered areas of Iraq.

    He added that the part of the withdrawal of foreign forces within the agreement indicated the need to inform those forces of the desire to do so a year before their actual withdrawal.

    A complex situation
    Al-Aasam pointed out that during the visit of Iraqi Defense Minister Thabet Al-Abbasi to Washington in August 2023, it was agreed that those forces would completely withdraw in June 2025, but during his second visit, last July, the American side informed its Iraqi counterpart that the withdrawal would begin in 2025 and the complete withdrawal would take place in mid-2026.

    According to the military expert, the American side asked Iraq to grant it an additional period, because "the two-year period is not enough for all forces to withdraw," but the Iraqi delegation rejected this request and insisted on completing the withdrawal within two years.

    In the opinion of security expert Adnan Al-Kanani, the situation in Iraq is complex and has turned into an arena of conflict between Russia and China on the one hand and the United States and Israel on the other, stressing that Iraq "is capable of defending its land and has full knowledge of who caused the destruction that the country has reached."

    Al-Kanani said that Iraq - before the entry of American forces in 2003 - controlled its airspace and borders, and therefore their presence was the reason for turning Iraqi territory into an arena for international conflicts, saying that "the international coalition did not prevent Turkey from occupying parts of Iraq, nor did it prevent the repeated bombing of areas inside the Kurdistan region under various pretexts."

    In his opinion, the presence of foreign forces is the main reason for all of Iraq's problems economically, security-wise, services-wise and politically, noting that "the Iraqi people fear everything and any step with unclear goals and intentions due to the theft of wills and the control of parties that are not qualified to rule, but rather impose their power with weapons on the people."

    Al-Kanani continued that many countries have ambitions in Iraq, and do not want their opponents to control some of its regions or resources, and he stressed that[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]It has become "like an open Ali Baba's cave, and all parties, whether America, Iran, Russia or Turkey, want to achieve the greatest possible gains," as he put it.

    Interests
    For his part, political affairs researcher Ayser Al-Hassoun confirmed that economic, geographical and political interests make the complete withdrawal of American forces from Iraq an impossible matter. He considered talk of the withdrawal of American forces and the international coalition a "lie", as this is not possible - in his opinion - due to Washington's economic and strategic interests in[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]He explained

    that the United States is working according to a smart plan to pressure Iraq by releasing ISIS members detained in the prisons of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and in the Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria, in addition to playing the card of the "Al-Nusra Front" army by throwing it on the borders of Iraq and Syria.

    According to Al-Hassoun, there are actual negotiations between Iraq and America through high committees that agreed on the exit of the first group of coalition forces in September 2025 and the second in the same month of 2026, adding that "Washington will not abandon Iraq and does not want it to go to the axis of Iran, Russia and China," according to Al Jazeera Net.
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