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Last U.S. Combat Troops Leave Iraq

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U.S. Army Capt. Mark Fisher, left, leans down to kiss his daughter Madeline, 2, as he sits to have lunch with her after arriving at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord Wednesday evening in DuPont, Wash. Fisher had just returned from a nearly one-year tour in  Iraq, his second there. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving  Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama’s Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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