The Age · World / Middle East

US forces have finally quit Iraq. What happens now?

· By Mustafa Salim, Alex Horton
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Baghdad: US military forces pulled out of Iraq on Wednesday following two decades of American involvement that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of US troops, and now leaves a battered but increasingly influential Iran at the centre of the region’s future.

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