US combat troops will start leaving Iraq from early next month, an Iraqi lawmaker on parliament’s Security and Defence Committee has told The New Arab‘s Arabic-language sister site.
The withdrawal will take place in stages, and is based on the deal Washington and Baghdad reached on the matter in July, Badr Al-Zayadi told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
“On this coming 1 January, no American combat troops will be present [in Iraq],” Al-Zayadi said.