Generals of Iraq and the United States attend a hand-over ceremony from the U.S. military to Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Monday, June 29. As part of a security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington last year, the U.S. troops would withdraw from Iraqi cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 to their bases, and would leave the country on December 31, 2011.
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