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Officials provided a timeline on Friday for the U.S. military mission ending in Iraq, but stopped short of calling it a withdrawal, according to multiple reports. Though the Biden administration withdrew its forces in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, the U.S. continues to have a heavy presence in surrounding Arab states, including Iraq and Syria. The officials provided more details to an announcement made by the Iraqi government two weeks ago that the U.S. would withdraw most of its forces from the country by 2026, and pushed back on certain claims made by Baghdad, leaving open the possibility…