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Obama marks end of Iraq war at U.S. base

The U.S. president joins vice-president Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to participate in a ceremony welcoming home U.S. troops from Iraq and marking the end of the war.

Ceremony at air force base in Maryland marks end of nine-year-battle

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The last convoy of solders from the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait, on Dec. 18, 2011. The brigade's special troops battalion were the last American soldiers to leave Iraq. (Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press)

U.S. President Barack Obama was among those marking the end of the war in Iraq at a special ceremony Tuesday.

The president was joined by vice president Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to participate in a ceremony welcoming home U.S. troops from Iraq, and marking the end of the war.

The last U.S. combat troops rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak on Dec. 18, ending nearly nine years of war.

During the war, nearly 4,500 Americans were killed, about 32,000 were wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent.

Corrections

  • An earlier version of this story included an image that showed U.S. President Barack Obama giving a speech before troops. In fact, the photo was of an earlier event.
    Dec 20, 2011 12:24 PM ET
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