Last Aussie troops leave Iraq

Thirty-three Australian soldiers, who were guarding the embassy in Iraq, have been withdrawn, and a Dubai-based private security firm has taken over.

The soldiers guarding the embassy were the last significant Australian troop presence in the country.

Australia once had some two-thousand soldiers in Iraq, one of the larger non-US deployments.

Two Australian officers remain as advisers to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq.