It's about time our troops came home from Iraq.

That's from a conflict expert, who says our five-year stay at Camp Taji training local forces, has given strength to ISIS.

Jacinda Ardern has announced the Iraq deployment will end in June next year - while kiwi troops will stay on in Afghanistan until at least the end of next year.

National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Director, Richard Jackson, told Mike Hosking the whole intervention has been a disaster and describes Iraq is a foreign quagmire.