Italy uses troop commitment to distance itself from Washington
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As he stood on a ship Tuesday carrying 800 Italian peacekeepers to Lebanon, the largest deployment of foreign troops to date, Prime Minister Romano Prodi could take pride that his nation had played the key role ...
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Italy is prepared to pull its troops out of Iraq if the interim government in Baghdad requests it, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on the Al-Jazeera television news channel.
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because Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had not bowed to demands to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq. were &quot;unreliable&quot; and was treating them with &quot;total suspicion&quot;.
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In the weeks prior to President Bush's proclamation that 70,000 U.S. troops would pull out of bases in places such as Germany and South Korea, American officials were quietly negotiating where to put new posts ...
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Romano  Prodi was berated by angry voters on Sunday who want him to  stop the United States expanding an air base near their homes.
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Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the Pentagon's plan to withdraw troops from stations abroad.
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VATICAN CITY -- With thousands of Italians converging on Rome to decry the war in Iraq, President Bush received a more subtle but pointed message yesterday about America's Middle East policy in his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is backing away from efforts to pressure European allies to join or remain in the American-led military force in Iraq and instead is working to coax those countries into participating in other initiatives in the region, according to senior Bush administration and European officials.
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The Italian government is signaling it will not press Washington for the extradition of 26 Americans _ mostly CIA agents _ who were indicted in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, according ...Comment
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Italy's government insisted Tuesday it will keep its troops in Iraq despite a demand by militants holding an Italian journalist hostage that Italian forces pull out within 48 hours.
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ROME - Italy&#39;s prime minister vowed his country&#39;s troops would not leave Iraq, as the country mourned the slaying of an Italian journalist.
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Charges in Italy against suspected CIA agents highlight growing dissent on America's antiterror tactics.
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Italyâs fragile government snapped over internal divisions and skepticism about Europeâs role in fighting terrorism.
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The Italian flag was lowered in Nassiriya on Friday, signaling the end of the nation's peacekeeping mission in Iraq three and a half years after it began.Comment
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Stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military delays the scheduled departure of another brigade
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The United States is worried about weakening Italian and German military commitments in Afghanistan as casualties increase in the fight to stem the bloody Taliban insurgency, officials said.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney pauses during a speech to American troops at Aviano Air Base in Italy in this file photo taken Jan. 27, 2004.