US military will be out of Iraq by end of September, Iraqi prime minister and Pentagon say

The lead

US military will be out of Iraq by end of September, Iraqi prime minister and Pentagon say AP News

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: AP News notes that responses are already forming.

The military backdrop

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in military, iraq, end, september, iraqi, as AP News has documented.

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Our military read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of military, iraq, end, september, iraqi: US military will be out of Iraq by end of September, Iraqi prime minister and Pentagon say AP News.