Armed Struggle Liberates Iraq After 23 Years Of Occupation

Posted: 24th March 2026

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After weeks of attacks by Iraqi resistance groups, the US and NATO yesterday began evacuating 3f1CI6W_gz5s”>January withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the Ain al-Asad airbase after years of attacks.

These withdrawals mean the US presence in Iraq is now confined to Kurdistan.

Iraqi fighters, with the support of Iran, have effectively decolonised their country, 23 years after the US invasion, and six years after Iraq’s parliament 3f1CI6W_gz5s”>Iran launched a missile attack on Ain al-Asad Airbase, the largest-ever against US forces abroad. The attack left over one hundred American troops with traumatic brain injuries and accelerated US plans to withdraw forces.

And since the US-Israeli sneak attack on Iran last month, Iran and Iraqi resistance groups backed by Iran, have been pounding Victoria Base, a sprawling, city-like complex on the outskirts of Baghdad. The attacks, via drones, missiles, and small arms, have resulted in a significant number of serious injuries, prompting the US over the weekend to 3f1CI6W_gz5s”>Trump revised the deadline. He said good progress had been made on negotiations, and revised the deadline, giving Iran until the end of the week to open the Strait before he commits a war crime. Iran said Trump was lying about negotiations. The foreign minister said they haven’t talked to the Americans since the war started. 

So Trump backed down. 

Faced with a credible threat to make the Gulf states effectively uninhabitable and collapse the global economy, he backed down. 

Threats of violence worked. 

Because violence, as the resistance in Iraq has just proved, is the only language imperialists understand.

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