Closing Al Asad:
Anatomy of a Withdrawal
US Forces Iraq officially handed over control of Al Asad Airbase to Iraqi authorities on Dec. 7, 2011. The withdrawal from Al Asad, one of the last large US bases to close, concluded eight years of American combat forces stationed in Al Anbar, Iraq’s most violent province. World Report, with the only American journalists positioned at Al Asad and in Al Anbar, follows the US Army’s 4th Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment out of Iraq, part of the largest vehicle movement since WWII.
EDITING | CINEMATOGRAPHY
by Scott Thornton
PRODUCED
by Combat Films & Research
2014