ERBIL: The US-led coalition has begun withdrawing from Iraq’s Kurdistan region ahead of a deadline to end their mission in the country, a Kurdish official said on Thursday.
They had already completed their withdrawal from other bases in Iraq in January and are now only present in the northern autonomous Kurdistan region.
They are scheduled to complete their withdrawal by Sept 30, having concluded their mission against the militant Islamic State group in Iraq, according to a 2024 agreement between Baghdad and Washington.
“Under the existing agreement, these forces must leave by the end of September, and they have in fact already begun doing so,” Kurdistan’s interior minister Rebar Ahmed told journalists.
Rival factions have been given a Sept 30 deadline to hand over their weapons
