"With this with­drawal, the Amer­i­cans are leav­ing behind a destroyed country. The Amer­i­cans did not leave modern schools or big factories behind them. Instead, they left thou­sands of widows and orphans. The Amer­i­cans did not leave a free people and country behind them, in fact they left a ruined country and a divided nation."

Mariam Khazim, a Shi­ite whose father was killed when a mor­tar shell struck his home in Sadr City.

US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare

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