The Obama administration's planned drawdown of US troops from Iraq is proceeding and should lead to an end of America's combat mission there by the end of this August.
Plans to reduce the number of US troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August are on schedule, President Obama said on August 2. At that point, the US mission will shift to the training and support of Iraqi security forces.
A full withdrawal of American troops from Iraq is scheduled to occur by the end of 2011. While the US military commitment in Iraq is now nearing a conclusion, the President warned, there is still danger there for U.S. troops on the ground.
According to the US military, 535 people were killed in Iraq in last month. It put the total number of people killed by "enemy action" at 222, including 161 civilians, 55 Iraqi troops and 6 Americans.
VOVNews/CNN
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