一些伊拉克人正在庆祝美国军事存在的结束，这一存在曾引发连番的血腥冲突。另一些人则担忧国家的未来，因为伊拉克正夹在华盛顿和德黑兰之间。
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.
周二，一面巨大的伊拉克国旗悬挂在摩苏尔老城区的努里大清真寺上。随着“坚定决心行动”的结束，今年驻扎在伊拉克的最后2500名美军现已撤离。图片说明：Zaid Al-Obeidi/法新社 — 盖蒂图片社美军于周三正式从伊拉克撤出，结束了长达二十年的军事存在。这一存在助长了多年毁灭性的流血冲突，留下一个伤痕累累的国家，正努力摆脱其两个最强大且如今相互敌对盟友的束缚。
A giant Iraqi flag hung from the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul’s old city on Tuesday. With the end of Operation Inherent Resolve, the last of the 2,500 U.S. forces stationed in Iraq this year are now gone. Credit...Zaid Al-Obeidi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Supported by U.S. forces formally withdrew from Iraq on Wednesday, ending a two-decade military presence that stoked years of devastating bloodshed and leaves behind a battered nation struggling to unshackle itself from its two most powerful, and now warring, allies.
在2003年推翻统治伊拉克近24年的残暴独裁者萨达姆·侯赛因后，美军正进行第二次从该国撤离。
After toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003, the brutal dictator who ruled Iraq for nearly 24 years, American forces are making their second withdrawal from the country.
根据最保守的统计，美国入侵及随后于2011年结束的占领，使该国深陷教派流血冲突和武装叛乱之中，导致近4500名美军丧生，超过115000名伊拉克人遇难。
The U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation, which ended in 2011, left a country reeling from sectarian bloodletting and militant insurgencies that cost nearly 4,500 U.S. lives and killed more than 115,000 Iraqis, according to the most modest counts.
美军最终在三年后重返伊拉克——这次是为了领导打击伊斯兰国（ISIS）的战斗。这支圣战力量曾占领伊拉克和叙利亚的大片地区，并因其屠杀什叶派穆斯林伊拉克人、公开处决人质以及奴役和虐待伊拉克雅兹迪少数族裔妇女而臭名昭著。
American forces ultimately returned three years later — this time to lead the fight against the Islamic State, the jihadist force that once seized swathes of Iraq and Syria and became notorious for its slaughter of Shiite Muslim Iraqis, public killings of hostages, and torture and enslavement of women from Iraq’s Yazidi minority.
随着“坚定决心行动”——即美国军方对打击伊斯兰国（ISIS）多国联军的官方称呼——的结束，今年驻扎在伊拉克的最后2500名美军将撤离。
With the end of Operation Inherent Resolve — the U.S. military’s official name for the multinational campaign against the Islamic State, or ISIS — the last of the 2,500 U.S. forces stationed in Iraq this year will depart.
数十年战争的物理痕迹每天都在被抹去。曾经蜿蜒穿过巴格达的防爆墙已被拆除。在一个决心夺回被多年汽车炸弹偷走的正常生活节奏的国家里，商场、餐馆和建筑工地正繁忙运作。
Physical reminders of decades of war are being erased every day. The blast walls that once snaked through Baghdad have come down. Malls, restaurants and construction sites are buzzing in a country determined to reclaim the rhythms of normal life stolen by years of car bombs.