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US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FreeStuffsNG(op): 4:54pm On Sep 28

US military withdraws from Iraq after two decades: Report

Iraqi Kurdish leaders say the US withdrawal will leave their region, long a CIA and Mossad hub, vulnerable to Iranian attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SA75zWaRGo?si=dE8oYkjWA4AsPO_H

News Desk

SEP 28, 2026

The US military has completely withdrawn from Iraq, DPA reported on 27 September, citing an Iraqi government official.

All US combat troops and logistical support forces have left the country, the official told the German news agency on Sunday.

The US military has not confirmed the report.

Iraq and the US agreed to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US military personnel in 2024.

Before the withdrawal, US forces had reduced their presence in Iraq, which first began with the illegal invasion of the country ordered by former president George Bush in 2003.

US forces were stationed in Erbil in the Kurdish autonomous region, at a base near Baghdad Airport, and in the Green Zone, a fortified area of the capital home to the parliament and US embassy.

During the war on Iran launched by US President Donald Trump on 28 February, Washington's forces carried out attacks against the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which overlaps with Iran-backed armed groups belonging to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI).

Iraqi resistance groups in turn targeted US forces with drones, particularly in the Kurdish region in Erbil.

Iran also carried out strikes against Kurdish targets, including training camps for Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.

Video shows columns of US equipment leaving Erbil as the US wraps up its withdrawal from the region ahead of the September 30 deadline for fully withdrawing from Erbil: https://t.co/cN0COtExHC pic.twitter.com/jSUb1L00Yb
— Kurdistan Watch (@KurdistanWatch) September 28, 2026

In the early days of the war, reports emerged that Iranian Kurds had been armed and trained by the US and Israel to infiltrate Iran under the cover of US warplanes.

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani told the Financial Times (FT) on Sunday that the US withdrawal comes at a highly sensitive time. He voiced concern over their leaving the region without adequate air defense systems.

Over the years, the Iraqi Kurdistan region has served as a covert operational hub for the CIA and Mossad.

US forces were largely withdrawn from Iraq in 2011. However, they returned in 2014 under the pretext of fighting ISIS.

https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/2084283735583707566

The US and its partners from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) covertly supported ISIS in a bid to divide Iraq and Syria into ethnic enclaves, create an independent Kurdish state, and allow oil exports to Israel.

The US and KDP, led by Masoud Barzani, helped ISIS capture Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and partner with ISIS to carry out the genocide of the Yezidi religious minority.

Amid plans for the current US withdrawal, the Iraqi government issued a deadline of 30 September for Iraqi resistance groups to disarm and hand over their weapons to the state.

The move, announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi after coming to power this spring, was later postponed and is now due to take place in June next year.

https://thecradle.co/articles/us-military-withdraws-from-iraq-after-two-decades-report

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FreeStuffsNG(op): 4:55pm On Sep 28

Iraqi Kurdish leaders say the US withdrawal will leave their region, long a CIA and Mossad hub, vulnerable to Iranian attacks

Iran just scored another victory against Trump and his proxy in Palestine.

Las las, US will be forced to leave the whole of West Asia along with its European Isreali-wannabe apartheid Ocupation force in Palestine.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FSBoperator: 5:02pm On Sep 28

Courtesy of Iran - the new power hegemon of the ME.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FSBoperator: 5:04pm On Sep 28

FreeStuffsNG:
Iraqi Kurdish leaders say the US withdrawal will leave their region, long a CIA and Mossad hub, vulnerable to Iranian attacks

Iran just scored another victory against Trump and his proxy in Palestine.

Las las, US will be forced to leave the whole of West Asia along with its European Isreali-wannabe apartheid Ocupation force in Palestine.

Kurds are stupid not to have taken the advice of Kissinger who said "being an enemy to the US is harmless but being a proxy is dangerous".

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 5:19pm On Sep 28

So what precisely did they achieve with the mission?

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 5:21pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
Kurds are stupid not to have taken the advice of Kissinger who said "being an enemy to the US is harmless but being a proxy is dangerous".

It was USA that mistaken the Kurdish as terrorists while they are only defending their land.

Before USA can tag you a terrorist, they must have been unable to get their way around you

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FSBoperator: 5:24pm On Sep 28

helinues:
It was USA that mistaken the Kurdish as terrorists while they are only defending their land.

Before USA can tag you a terrorist, they must have been unable to get their way around you

The Kurds have never been designated by the US as terrorists.

The issue here is that a Kurdish state they are seeking overlaps Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

In the process they only made enemies in Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran

They thought they could get it by being a direct proxy to US agenda which unfortunately did not consider a Kurdish state but rather Greater Israel.

The Kurds are guilty of naivety to trust the American golem who are only in the region to support and create Greater Israel which includes all Kurdish land.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 5:25pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
The Kurds have never been designated by the US as terrorists.

The issue here is that a Kurdish state they are seeking overlaps Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

They thought they could get it by being a direct proxy to US agenda which unfortunately did not consider a Kurdish state but rather Greater Israel.

The Kurds are guilty of naivety to trust the American golem.

Then you do not follow the news from the genesis

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FSBoperator: 5:30pm On Sep 28*

helinues:
Then you do not follow the news from the genesis

It was Turkey - a NATO member that designated the Kurdish PKK as a terrorist organisation to stop the US backing them in Syria and Iraq.

Southern Turkey is ancestral Kurdish land so the Turks will be wary of their NATO ally in the US supporting Kurdish territorial claims in both northern Syria and Iraq which are bothering southern Turkey.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 5:32pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
It was Turkey - a NATO member that designated the Kurdish PKK as a terrorist organisation to stop the US backing them in Syria and Iraq.

Southern Turkey is ancestral Turkish land so the Turks will be wary of their NATO ally in the US supporting Kurdish territorial claims in both northern Syria and Iraq which are bothering southern Turkey.

Turkey was working with USA then, how can Turkey designated them as terrorists without USA involvement..

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FSBoperator: 5:38pm On Sep 28

helinues:
Turkey was working with USA then, how can Turkey designated them as terrorists without USA involvement..

Go and ask your AI how the US support for the Kurdish PKK almost led to Turkey abandoning NATO.

The Turks will however accept military aid from the US to stop attacking PKK elements in Syria.

You should know the reason Erdogan used as an excuse to enter Syria was to check kurdish PKK forces whom he claimed were planning cross border raids into southern Turkey.

Guy I can propose a PhD thesis on the ME to any western university and be accepted with full scholarship

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 5:44pm On Sep 28*

FSBoperator:
Go and ask your AI how the US support for the Kurdish PKK almost led to Turkey abandoning NATO.

The Turks will however accept military aid from the US to stop attacking PKK elements in Syria.

You should know the reason Erdogan used as an excuse to enter Syria was to check kurdish PKK forces whom he claimed were planning cross border raids into southern Turkey.

Guy I can propose a PhD thesis on the ME to any western university and be accepted with full scholarship

Ask Ai kwa, bro na me you dey engage with oo.

I still remember the story that led to the designation, I still remember that time how Turkey shot down Russia fighter jet which Russia couldn't do jack.

If USA can designate the leading groups fighting for the freedom of Kurdish as terrorists, that's indirectly calling all the ethnic Kurdish terrorists

You are probably the one making use of Ai for information

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by FreeStuffsNG(op): 5:59pm On Sep 28

helinues:
Turkey was working with USA then, how can Turkey designated them as terrorists without USA involvement..

Turkiye designated US proxy in Palestine as terrorists too. Turkiye's war with Kurds is a very complex one and really trumps Turkiye's alliance with US.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 6:00pm On Sep 28

FreeStuffsNG:
Turkiye designated US proxy in Palestine as terrorists too. Turkiye's war with Kurds is a very complex one and really trumps Turkiye's alliance with US.

Tukiye and Kurdish matter have been decades old if not century. Isis reopened the old wound between the 2

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by helinues: 6:10pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
Please educate that one for me.

I no get strength to educate every stray NL ignorami

It's so unfortunate for you this evening. Do you even have any clue about the last Caliphate?

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by ekineme: 6:48pm On Sep 28

Olodo uprising

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Kalashnikov49: 7:15pm On Sep 28

See as they are celebrating...

Anyway ..Trump has SET iraq free grin

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Mattswaggz: 7:15pm On Sep 28

Looks like the US can't sustain all the warfronts they've opened because this seems like a decision made in a hurry or may even be running away.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Naturalgbola(m): 7:16pm On Sep 28

Nice developments. Iran will burn sonn....

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by franchasng: 7:16pm On Sep 28

According to Nigerian Iranian terrorists, as US military have withdraw from Iraq after over two decades, Iraq has defeated US just as Afghanistan defeated US in 2023 according to their mediocre terrorist reasoning, very funny terrorists cheesy

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Mattswaggz: 7:17pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
Courtesy of Iran - the new power hegemon of the ME.

What has this got to do with Iran?.....Iran that can't defend themselves fully is whom you're claiming made US forces in Iraq to withdraw?.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by dahmie2013: 7:17pm On Sep 28

Please come to Nigeria already. You're needed.

Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by EdiskyHarry: 7:18pm On Sep 28

Don't say after decade, but say after stealing billions of barrels of crude oil. USA invaded Iraq, killed thousands of innocent people on the pretext that Iraq had a weapon of mass destruction, but what is stopping them from attacking north Korea that is displaying several missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads today?

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by MANNABBQGRILLS: 7:20pm On Sep 28

What has a beginning must surely have an end.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Mattswaggz: 7:20pm On Sep 28

dahmie2013:
Please come to Nigeria already. You're needed.

Why can't the "Nigerians" rise up and fight for themselves?.

Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by patrickcollins: 7:23pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
Kurds are stupid not to have taken the advice of Kissinger who said "being an enemy to the US is harmless but being a proxy is dangerous".

Why is Israel not having problem

Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Exousiang01(m): 7:24pm On Sep 28

helinues:
So what precisely did they achieve with the mission?

Same thing they achieved in Afghanistan...

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by Originalsly: 7:28pm On Sep 28

I hope this news will help some. understand why Iran was attacking their neighbour Iraq. ... and that US and Israel were operating in Iraq and closer to home .... ISIS is backed by Israel and the US ... a terrorist group that directly affects us.

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Re: US Military Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades - DPA by CaseSensitive(m): 7:29pm On Sep 28

FSBoperator:
Courtesy of Iran - the new power hegemon of the ME.

As it should be.

US has long flexed military influence and alliance in the backyard of other superpowers, but US cannot allow it to happen in its own backyard.

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