Iraq sees need for foreign troops for 10 years
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Iraq will need foreign troops to help defend it for another 10 years, but will not accept U.S. bases indefinitely, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.
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Troop strength in Iraq is expected to stay at the current level of about 120,000 for at least two more years, according to the Army's top operations officer.
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About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, according to a poll in that country.
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Pressure is rising to establish an Iraqi military capable of securing the country by January elections.
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The head of US forces in Iraq, Lt Gen David Petraeus, says fighting the insurgency could take decades.
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The military will extend the combat tours of about 10,400 troops already in Iraq and send an additional 1,500 soldiers.
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Iraq's government on Tuesday welcomed long-awaited testimony to Congress by the U.S. commander in Iraq and said it would have less need for foreign forces to carry out combat operations in the "near future".
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It could be five years before Iraqi forces can guarantee security and allow US-led coalition troops to wind down their role, a leading think tank said Tuesday.
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Poland will keep its soldiers in Iraq at least through the end of the year, when the U.N. mandate for foreign troops expires, the country's defense minister said Friday.
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The cost of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq similar to the peacekeeping role American troops have played in South Korea would range from $10 billion to $25 billion a year, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
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United Nations, Sep 15 - Iraq has appealed to the international community to send more troops to protect the United Nations staff needed for holding of elections by January 31 next year and thwart terrorist attempt to disrupt the poll process.
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Iraq would seek an extension of the U.N. mandate authorizing U.S.-led forces on its soil if it cannot reach a bilateral deal with the United States by the end of the year, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday.
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Pentagon planners were beginning meetings Friday to determine which units will be leaving Iraq in the next 10 months.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani estimated that the Iraqi army will be in a position to take over from the Americans at the end of 2008, and rejected calls by Democrats for the United States to start withdrawing troops and turning over responsibility to the Iraqis within weeks.
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TOKYO, Dec. 9 -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet agreed on Thursday to extend the deployment of Japan's 600 non-combat troops in Iraq for up to one year, despite condemnation of the mission by more than half of the Japanese public and opposition political parties.
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A decade of instability and conflict leaves an environmentally devastated Iraq, but the international community is moving to clean it up, as the United Nations announced Tuesday
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A US-Iraq security pact won't set troop levels now, but it could set the stage for long-term strategy.