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After a Buildup to Counter Iran, U.S. Troops Begin Leaving Mideast
(Wall Street Journal) Nancy A. Youssef - The U.S. military has begun to draw small numbers of troops out of the Middle East after concluding that the threat of reprisal attacks from Iran or its proxies has subsided, military officials said. About 1,000 combat troops who had deployed to Kuwait after the Jan. 3 strike that killed Iranian Maj.-Gen. Qasem Soleimani have left the region over the past two weeks, to be followed by an additional 2,000 members of the same brigade in the weeks ahead.