U.S. President Joe Biden, right, meets Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraq's prime minister, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 26, 2021. Biden and Al-Kadhimi plan to announce that the American combat mission in Iraq will be over by the end of the year though the U.S. is expected to continue having a military presence on the ground. Pool Photo by Tom Brenner/UPI