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The last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq late Wednesday. Under the new era, called Operation New Dawn, the 50,000 U.S. troops left in Iraq will switch their focus to providing security for American civilians, training Iraqi security forces and partnering with Iraqis in counterinsurgency operations. Most will be deployed along the Arab-Kurdish fault line in the north.
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U.S. soldiers salute during a handover ceremony in Baghdad's Green Zone to Iraqi control inside the heavily-fortified compound on June 1.
-- Permanent consulates will be established in the southern city of Basra and in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan in the north, at a cost of about $1.5 billion. The Basra office is near southern Iraq's oil fields and the country's only port, Umm Qasr, and will focus on helping U.S. companies set up operations there. Diplomats in Erbil will work on soothing Arab-Kurdish tensions that threaten the long-term stability of Iraq,Coach Bags, as well as on Turkish-Kurdish relations.
"We will have a footprint where we have the right people in the right place, commensurate and consistent with our country's objectives," Hill said.
The State Department plans to open four diplomatic offices outside Baghdad by the end of 2011, when all U.S. military troops are scheduled to leave Iraq. Three of the offices will be in the north, where tensions between Arabs and Kurds over oil and territory are likely to last far longer than the current impasse in forming a new Iraqi government.
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-- Embassy branch offices will be built in the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk and in Mosul, where insurgent violence continues unabated. The temporary offices will be open for three to five years and will focus on Arab-Kurd relations as well as issues involving Christians and other minorities.
"Our commitment in Iraq is changing," President Barack Obama said, "from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats."
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China, Mexico, France and a few other large countries have more U.S. diplomatic offices on their soil, but most countries in the Middle East have a single U.S. embassy.
"Iraq is not a war. Iraq is a country," outgoing U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill said during one of several valedictories in Washington this week. Noting a mutual desire for a "longer term, special relationship with Iraq," he said, "there will be a lot to do for our diplomats there."
While a senior Iraqi army officer recently said the country won't be able to defend itself until 2020, U.S. officials are insisting that diplomats, not soldiers, are now on the front line in Iraq. This week, State Department officials announced plans to open four new outposts by the fall of 2011:
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James Jeffrey, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday. He presented his diplomatic credentials hours later to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
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