Iraq leader welcomes troops' exit
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The Iraqi president welcomes Tony Blair's plans to cut UK troops in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,000 within months.
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WASHINGTON - Offering a simple, "Thank you America," Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi declared Thursday that his country is succeeding in its effort to move past the war that ousted Saddam Hussein.    In an appearance that President Bush's advisers hoped would ease American voters' doubts about the troubled campaign in Iraq, Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress that despite struggles and setbacks, "the values of liberty and democracy" are taking hold there...
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LONDON, Feb. 21 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Wednesday that 1,600 British troops would return home from Iraq in coming months, but stopped short of announcing any clear exit strategy from the hugely unpopular war. He said a further 500 soldiers may be withdrawn by the end of summer, and...
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has told Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett that her country's troops will be able to go home at the end of next year, voicing confidence that order will have been restored in war-torn Iraq by then.
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LONDON, Feb. 21 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair today announced that 1,600 British troops would return home from Iraq in coming months, but stopped short of announcing any clear exit strategy from the hugely unpopular war. He said a further 500 soldiers may be withdrawn by the end of summer, and that...
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani left a Jordanian hospital Wednesday to fly back to Baghdad.
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WASHINGTON - As British troops pull out of their last base in Basra, some military commanders and civilian government officials in the area are concerned that the transition could leave them and a major supply route to Baghdad at greater risk of attack.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits Iraq to thank troops for their efforts, days before leaving office.
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The time has come for Australian combat troops to leave Iraq, the head of the country's armed forces says.
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BERLIN President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland moved quickly on Monday to end an escalating row inside his country&#39;s fragile leftist government coalition, saying he hoped that 2,500 troops serving in Iraq would be withdrawn next year.
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President Bush said he and the Iraqi leader had agreed today to speed the turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces and dismissed a call for a gradual withdrawal of troops.
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The US president welcomes a deal between Iraq's Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders aimed at forging unity.
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Iraqis welcomed the news on Wednesday that Britain and Denmark are preparing to dramatically scale back their military forces in and around the unruly southern port city of Basra.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq&#39;s leader says there is now one less militant group operating in his country. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (EE&#39;-yahd ah-LAH&#39;-wee) says key members of a group called Mohammed&#39;s Army are under
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Deteriorating security and rampant anger toward US troops in Iraq is emboldening insurgents, according to Representative Martin T. Meehan, who returned from a fact-finding trip yesterday calling for an exit strategy that would significantly reduce the number of troops there over the next 12 to 18 months.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared Saturday that Iraqi forces could secure the country on their own âany timeâ American troops decided to withdraw.
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President Bush, in Iraq on Monday, emphasized security gains, sectarian reconciliation and the possibility of a troop withdrawal.