US To Announce Complete Withdrawal Of Troops From Iraq

Senior administration and Pentagon officials are now reportedly resigned to the fact that all remaining American troops will leave Iraq except for about 160 soldiers attached to the US embassy Photo: AFP

US 'To Announce Full Withdrawal Of Troops From Iraq' -- The Telegraph

Washington is all but certain to abandon plans to keep several thousand US troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year, terminating its deployment nearly nine years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

Despite ongoing concerns about the ability of Iraq's security forces to prevent renewed instability and violence, the Obama administration has according to reports in the US decided that all but 150 to 200 US troops of the remaining 40,000 will go home under the terms of a 2008 agreement.

The key issue has been the failure of the Iraqi parliament to provide a guarantee of immunity from prosecution to US troops that stay.

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Update: Military official: U.S., Iraq have no deal on post-2011 troop levels -- CNN

My Comment: What is my take .... because Iraq is too dysfunctional to come to any form of consensus on US troop levels in Iraq .... all US troops will be gone the end of December this year.