卡西姆·阿卜杜勒-扎赫拉 巴格达——根据巴格达与华盛顿达成的协议，最后一批美军原定于周三撤离伊拉克。此举受到伊朗支持团体的欢迎，但其他一些伊拉克人对此感到担忧，尤其是在库尔德地区。
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD — The last U.S. troops were slated to leave Iraq on Wednesday under an agreement between Baghdad and Washington, a move celebrated by Iran-backed groups but which some other Iraqis found concerning, particularly in the Kurdish region.
美军于2003年入侵伊拉克，推翻了萨达姆·侯赛因。他们于2011年撤离，但三年后，伊拉克当局邀请了一支规模较小的美国主导的任务部队前来打击“伊斯兰国”组织，该组织曾在伊拉克各地肆虐，夺取了大片领土。
U.S. troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein. They departed in 2011, but three years later, Iraqi authorities invited a smaller U.S.-led mission to fight the Islamic State group, which had rampaged across Iraq, seizing large swaths of territory.
随着该极端组织被削弱至仅剩零散的潜伏小组，华盛顿和巴格达于2024年同意逐步结束这一任务。
With the extremist group reduced to scattered sleeper cells, Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind the mission down.
美军去年从伊拉克大部分地区的基地撤出，但在半自治的北部库尔德地区保留了数百人的小规模驻军。自美国和以色列于2月28日对伊朗发动战争以来，那里的基地经常遭到袭击。伊朗支持的伊拉克民兵还与也门胡塞武装协调，袭击沙特阿拉伯。
U.S. troops pulled out of bases in most areas of Iraq last year but maintained a small presence of hundreds of troops in the semiautonomous northern Kurdish region. Bases there have regularly come under attack since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28. Iran-backed Iraqi militias also have coordinated with Yemen’s Houthi rebels to attack Saudi Arabia .
伊拉克政府最初将9月30日的美军撤离期限与届时非国家武装团体解除武装挂钩。
The Iraqi government initially linked the Sept. 30 deadline for U.S. withdrawal to the disarmament of non-state armed groups by that date.
虽然少数影响力较小的民兵组织已同意交出武器，但与伊朗关系密切的强大团体拒绝了这一前景，或为解除武装设定了政府不太可能满足的条件。
While a handful of less-influential militias have agreed to turn over their weapons, powerful groups close to Iran rejected the prospect or set conditions for disarming that the government would be unlikely to meet.
总理阿里·扎伊迪此后已收回这一期限。他本月早些时候对《纽约时报》表示，民兵解除武装的期限已推迟至2027年6月。
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has since walked back the deadline. He told The New York Times earlier this month that the deadline for militia disarmament has been pushed to June 2027.
美军撤离的影响可能不会立即显现，尤其是因为美军存在此前已经缩减。但伊拉克库尔德地区的官员对美军撤离表达了焦虑，尤其是对美国防空系统撤出的担忧。
The effects of the U.S. withdrawal may not be immediately visible, particularly since the U.S. military presence had already been scaled down. But officials in Iraq’s Kurdish region have expressed anxiety about the departure and particularly about the removal of U.S. air defense systems.
库尔德地区政府的自由斗士部（Peshmerga Ministry）表示，在近期美伊冲突期间，库尔德地区遭受了超过1000次无人机和弹道导弹袭击。
The Kurdish regional government’s Peshmerga Ministry said the Kurdish region had faced more than 1,000 drone and ballistic-missile attacks during the recent U.S.-Iran conflict.
声明称：“在当前复杂的地区局势下，美国在未提供防御系统的情况下撤离库尔德地区，令人深感担忧。”与此同时，伊拉克境内的伊朗盟友组织对美军撤离表示庆祝。
“The departure of the United States from the Kurdistan Region under these complex regional circumstances, without the provision of a defense system, is a matter of concern,” the statement said. Iran-allied groups in Iraq, meanwhile, have celebrated the U.S. withdrawal.
强大的真主旅民兵组织（Kataib Hezbollah）安全官员阿布·穆贾希德·阿萨夫（Abu Mujahid al-Assaf）在一份声明中表示：“占领军被击败并被驱逐出伊拉克领土，是实现完全主权的开端。”
“The expulsion of the occupation forces, defeated, from the land of Iraq is the beginning of full sovereignty,” Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, a security official with the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia, said in a statement.
他向扎伊迪（al-Zaidi）及其政府发出警告，要求其不要执行美国的计划，并威胁称“任何不为人民利益服务的政府都将被以一切手段推翻”。
He added a warning to al-Zaidi and his government not to carry out American plans, threatening that “any government that does not work for the benefit of the people will be overthrown by all means.”