Biden, Kadhimi to seal agreement on ending U.S. combat mission in Iraq

The U.S. role in Iraq will shift entirely to training and advising the Iraqi military to defend itself.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday will seal an agreement formally ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after U.S. troops were sent to the country. Coupled with Mr. Biden’s withdrawal of the last American forces in Afghanistan by the end of August, the Democratic president is completing U.S. combat missions in the two wars that then-President George W. Bush began under his watch. Mr. Biden and Mr. Kadhimi are to meet in the Oval Office for their first face-to-face talks as part of a strategic dialogue between the United States and Iraq.