US drops keeping troops in Iraq

October 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm in The Dickinson Press

BAGHDAD (AP) The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for instability.
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