At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided on Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq will leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years. Earlier this month, in a letter to the council, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani called for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to be closed. Al-Sudani said UNAMI had overcome “great and varied challenges” and that “the grounds for having a political mission in Iraq” no longer exist. The UNSC resolution adopted on Friday extended the mission’s mandate for “a final 19-m…