KATHMANDU. The United States has withdrawn its last soldiers from Iraq. With the departure of the last American soldiers and military equipment from the Erbil airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the 12-year-long US military campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq has formally ended. The process of ending the US-led coalition's military mission was advanced in accordance with the agreement reached between the US and Iraq two years ago. With IS now limited to small 'sleeper cells' after losing its former territorial control, the security responsibility of the country has been handed over to the...