Trump to cut troops in Iraq to 3,000 in Sept

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump plans to announce further US troop reductions in Iraq on Wednesday, an administration official said. The US commander in the Middle East, General Frank McKenzie, said the current level of 5,200 military personnel would be reduced to 3,000 in September, CNN reported on Wednesday.
After sending more American forces to the Middle East in his first three years, Trump has made a number of moves in
recent months to begin fulfilling a 2016 promise to get the US out of what he called “endless wars.”
In January, Iraq’s parliament voted to expel American forces amid the uproar following the killing by the US of Qssem Soleimani, an Iranian general who oversaw his country’s foreign military operations.
The following month, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledged to expand its training mission in Iraq as a quick initial response to Trump’s call for the alliance to play a bigger role in the Middle East. That was after attacks on on two bases used by American armed forces as retaliation for the airstrike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani.