US forces pull out of Iraq's cities

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Iraqi forces have assumed formal control of the capital, Baghdad, and other cities, six years after US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq.

US troops began withdrawing from the country's major cities and towns as the midnight deadline passed on Tuesday for troops to hand over security to Iraqi forces.

"The withdrawal of American troops is completed now from all cities, after everything they sacrificed for the sake of security," Sadiq al-Rikabi, a senior adviser to Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, said.

He told the Associated Press news agency on Tuesday that Iraq is "now celebrating the restoration of sovereignty". The Pentagon did not comment.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200963054650513164.html">More at Al Jazeera English.

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