Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 30 September 2026
The U.S. military withdraws from Iraq over 2 decades after its invasion
23 years after the United States military invaded Iraq, sparking an insurgency and a civil war, the U.S. has withdrawn its forces, as the country still tries to combat Iranian influence.
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NPR and the New York Times both lead with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq after about two decades, but they frame the grouping differently. NPR’s extract gives the Iraq item substantive detail and adds that the country is still trying to combat Iranian influence, while the New York Times uses the withdrawal as part of a broader roundup and also notes, in its headline, that Trump told A.I. giants to police themselves.
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