{"id":22951,"date":"2026-10-05T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/america-the-kurds-and-iraq\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:46:57","slug":"america-the-kurds-and-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/america-the-kurds-and-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"America, the Kurds and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>When I read that the American presence in Iraq \u2013 23 years after the invasion \u2013 ended with no fanfare, with the last Americans boarding a C-17 transport plane in the predawn hours of September 30 at an air base at Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, my mind wondered to another withdrawal, some 35 years earlier.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1317235\/america-the-kurds-and-iraq\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read that the American presence in Iraq \u2013 23 years after the invasion \u2013 ended with no fanfare, with the last Americans boarding a C-17 transport plane in the predawn hours of September 30 at an air base at Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, my mind wondered to another withdrawal, some 35 years earlier. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"America, the Kurds and Iraq\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/america-the-kurds-and-iraq\/#more-22951\" aria-label=\"Read more about America, the Kurds and Iraq\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}