US Completes Its Iraq Withdrawal, and Baghdad Calls It Sovereignty
The US has completed its military withdrawal from Iraq, according to DW, and Baghdad is declaring a new era of sovereignty. DW keeps a set of open questions alongside the declaration: the role of militias, the presence of foreign forces, and what the country's security looks like once American troops are gone. A withdrawal can be finished while those questions stay live.
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Calling it a new era of sovereignty is a political statement, not a security assessment. The harder test is what happens with the militias and the foreign forces still in the picture.
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Both can be true at once: the withdrawal is real, and the security questions remain unresolved rather than settled by the departure itself.