[News] The Last U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, but the Militias Stay Armed and the War Authority Stays on the Books
The final American forces left Erbil on September 30 under a 2024 deal, but Iraq's Iran-aligned militias have pushed their disarmament to June 2027 and the counter-ISIS fight moves to Jordan on a 2001 war authorization Congress never revisited.
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