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    Monday Sunrise Briefs: Rising backlash over killing Iran's general

    Jan 06, 2020 3 minutes

    Forced to choose between the United States and Iran, Iraqi lawmakers voted Sunday to expel all 5,200 U.S. troops from their country. The vote, however, was nonbiding. 

    The short-term implication of Iraq’s backlash is an American military-ordered shift from targeting ISIS (Islamic State) fighters in the region to protecting its own soldiers. U.S forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011 but returned in 2014 at the request of Baghdad to help battle ISIS after it seized vast areas of the country.

    Meanwhile, Iran said Sunday that it

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