US troop withdrawal "a heavy loss", says German defense minister
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German Defense Minister Peter Struck said Tuesday that US troop withdrawal will bring about heavy losses to some regions in Germany and Berlin would take that into account when closing its own military ...
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Germany said Tuesday U.S. plans to pull  out 30,000 troops were a sign Europe's divisions had healed,  but communities hit by the decision warned they were headed for  economic disaster.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on  Wednesday ruled out sending German troops to Iraq after his  defense minister said a deployment could be possible in the  future.
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The United States plans to withdraw  about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment  of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold  War and the beginning of the war on terrorism, U.S. officials  said on Saturday.
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The U.S. military will keep a 'significant' troop presence in Germany and even expand some bases, a senior U.S. commander said Thursday, despite the planned withdrawal of two Cold War-era divisions over the ...
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The U.S. military will keep a significant troop presence in Germany and even expand some bases, a senior U.S. commander said Thursday, despite the planned withdrawal of two Cold War-era divisions over the next decade.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel  has no plans to boost the number of German troops in  Afghanistan or shift them to other parts of the country despite  mounting U.S. pressure, a government spokesman said on  Saturday.
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Members of Germany's opposition Green party instructed their leaders at a party congress over the weekend to withdraw their support for the German military engagement in Afghanistan.While the decision cannot actually affect Germany's current foreign policy -- since Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government does not need opposition votes for a renewal of the troop's mandate next month -- it is indicative of the deep split which has developed within the Greens.
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Government officials urged parliament Thursday to keep Germany's 3,000 troops and six reconnaissance jets in Afghanistan for another year, saying a pullout now would endanger progress made since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has sent an "unusually stern" letter to his German counterpart asking Berlin to send more troops to southern Afghanistan, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
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BERLIN - A senior German minister &#39;s comments, which appeared to soften Berlin&#39;s hardline opposition to sending troops to Iraq sparked a round of diplomatic activity across the Atlantic.
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KUWAIT Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday that he expected American troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years but cautioned that any final decision would hinge on the progress that Iraq&#39;s civilian government and security forces made by
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Germany turns down a US appeal to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission.
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In a possible softening of its strict non-deployment policy in Iraq, Germany&#39;s defense minister said he could not rule out sending troops there in the future.
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell says overstretched US troops are losing the conflict in Iraq.
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German officials today reaffirmed their policy of not contributing troops to the American-led coalition in Iraq and rejected speculation, prompted by a remark by the
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The United States will station three new brigades in Germany at the same time as it withdraws about 30,000 troops from the country, a top U.S. general said on Thursday. General Charles Wald, deputy commander of United States European Command, told a news conference America planned to station a Stryker armored vehicle brigade with 3,600 soldiers, a paratroop brigade and an expeditionary brigade in Germany.