Coalition withdraws from al-Taji base and heads to bases in Erbil

This comes in conjunction with Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi's discussion of the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq during his visit to Washington.

Six years and a little more is the age of the period that the International Coalition, led by the United States, spent in Iraq with the aim of helping to expel ISIS mercenaries, which was controlling a number of cities at the time.

Today, after those years passed with its twists and turns, the Joint Operations Command announced that those forces, especially the American ones, would withdraw from the Taji base north of Baghdad, which is the most important for these forces, likely heading to the Al-Baghdadi and Al-Harir bases in Erbil.

The withdrawal process is supervised by the joint command responsible for coordinating with the coalition forces, which makes its role after the withdrawal confined to training and information exchange.

And what remains of these retreating forces will return to the countries from which they came without being re-positioned or redeployed to any base in Iraq.

Going back to the date of the fifteenth of June 2014, that is, since the arrival of the international coalition forces, we find that these forces focus their role in eliminating ISIS mercenaries, and have participated in the battles to liberate Mosul, Anbar and Salah al-Din.

After defeating ISIS in 2017, its tasks shifted to training, arming and providing intelligence information to Iraqi forces, in addition to direct military support through sorties to pursue ISIS sleeper cells and neutralize them with strikes.

As for the most prominent bases in which it was located, Taji, north of Baghdad, Baghdad airport base, Balad base in Salah al-Din, Habbaniyah base in Anbar, Ain al-Assad base in Anbar, K1 base in Kirkuk and al-Harir in Erbil.

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ANHA