Tag: US troops
More US troops going to Middle East
The United States is sending nearly 3 000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising...
US withdraws troops from Syria
The United States is pulling troops from north-east Syria, a shift which clears the way for a Turkish military offensive against Kurdish-led forces and...
Did US troops bring democracy? Iraqis have doubts
Sitting in a barber shop in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City slum, three friends agreed after a long and hard argument that US...
KBR eyes big LNG projects as military work shrinks
KBR Inc expects natural gas projects to drive its backlog significantly higher in the next three years as the engineering company's military...
Iraq casualty toll rises in October
The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq climbed sharply in October, according to government figures, amid concerns about security after...
Bomb blasts kill 18 in Iraqi capital – sources
Two bombs exploded on a busy commercial street in a Shi'ite neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad killing at least 18 people and wounding...
Official: Troops in Central Africa for Months, Not Years
About a hundred US troops being deployed to Central Africa will be there for months -- not years -- and only until...
U.S. to pull out of Iraq after nearly 9 years of...
President Barack Obama vowed to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing U.S. hopes of...
As US withdraws, Baghdad eyes checkpoints
Miles of blast walls and hundreds of checkpoints for years have made Baghdad a safer place -- but also a frustrating maze...
Initial U.S. drawdown to pull from restive Afghan east
President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw some US troops from Afghanistan this year will take soldiers out of the country's restive east,...
Ugandans welcome US troop plan to fight rebels
Residents and rights groups said US troops being sent to Uganda would give a fresh impetus to the fight against Lord's Resistance...
Exclusive – Iraq’s Maliki says US military trainers might stay
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said US troops might still be able to stay in Iraq as trainers beyond a 2011 withdrawal...
Iraq’s Maliki wins backing for US trainers, but no immunity
Iraqi Prime Nuri al-Maliki won more backing from the political blocs in his power-sharing government to negotiate on plans to keep US...
Five US troops killed in Afghanistan, Pentagon says
A roadside bomb killed five US troops in southern Afghanistan a Pentagon official told Reuters, less than a week after 30 American...
U.S. troops in Iraq will need immunity – U.S. chief
Any agreement for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal would require the Iraqi parliament to...
Legal safeguards for US troops key to an Iraq deal
Legal safeguards for US troops could become a major stumbling block to any potential deal with Iraq to keep some American forces...
Obama weighed military, political risk for Afghan plan
President Barack Obama's plan for pulling US troops from Afghanistan will intensify risks in the thick of next year's fighting season, but...
AFRICOM denies that US troops on alert for Nigeria
The United States is not preparing for any possible intervention in Nigeria, as was erroneously reported in the Nigerian Compass newspaper, a...
No plan for US troops in Somalia
The United States does not plan to send US troops into Somalia or Yemen as those countries struggle to contain Islamic militants,...
Logistics plays a key role in war effort in Afghanistan
Infrastructure to support US military efforts in Afghanistan is already strained, posing challenges to the troop surge announced by President Obama
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Obama to send 30 000 troops to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama said he is sending 30 000 more US troops to Afghanistan by next summer to speed the battle against...
Obama to lay out long-awaited Afghan plan
President Barack Obama plans to announce today that he will send about 30 000 more US troops to Afghanistan in a long-awaited...
Germany may review Afghan troop levels in 2010
Germany is likely to stick with its 4500 troop ceiling for Afghanistan when it renews a parliamentary mandate in December but could...
