Huge U.S. Air Base Returned To Iraq

Photo from Life at Joint Base Balad

Huge U.S. Air Base Returned To Iraqi Control -- Yahoo News/Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military has handed over to the Iraqi government its 2nd largest Iraq base, a joint army and air force complex that housed some 36,000 American troops and contractors at the peak of the war, U.S. officials said.

Joint Base Balad was returned to Iraqi control on Tuesday with the departure of the last members of the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing as the United States continued the withdrawal of all forces from Iraq by year end.

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