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Last US troops leave Iraq as war ends

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KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait -

The U.S. military says the last American troops have left Iraq as the nearly nine-year war ends.

The final convoy rolled across the border into neighboring Kuwait as day broke on Sunday. Soldiers whooped, bumped fists and embraced each other in a burst of joy and relief.

Nearly 4,500 Americans died in the war and thousands more were wounded. More than 100,000 Iraqi lives were lost since the coalition went into Iraq in 2003.

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