Roughly 40,000 American troops are stationed across the Middle East, mostly in countries with close ties to the United States.
There were more than 160,000 American troops in Iraq alone in 2007, during the war that followed the U.S. invasion.
Image Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq in 2019. Credit... Nasser Nasser/Associated PressWhy are so many troops there?
A military coalition led by the United States, including forces in Syria and Iraq, defeated it.
President Biden has retaliated with attacks on Iran-aligned militants, hitting groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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