U.S. Set to Send Marines to Philippines
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The U.S. military is sending 600 Marines and Navy personnel to the Philippines to assist in recovery efforts after recent storms left hundreds dead and displaced 200,000 from their homes.
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President Bush announced Thursday that a delegation of experts led by Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to Asia on Sunday to assess the need for further U.S. assistance.
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Australia will send about 100 soldiers to Solomon Islands, following the murder of an Australian officer in Honiara. The rapid response infantry company will start deploying to Solomon Islands from Townsville on Thursday.
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MANILA : The Philippines will lose out on some 3,000 jobs in Iraq unless it lifts a ban on its nationals working there, a recruitment agency said amid protests by Filipinos desperate to work in the troubled country.
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Hundreds of marines sailed Tuesday to reinforce troops in the southern Philippines following fighting with followers of a jailed Muslim leader that killed at least 17 soldiers and as many as 30 rebels, officials said.
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The Pentagon notified U.S. military  combat units based in seven states on Tuesday that they are  likely to be part of next-year's planned rotation of American  forces into Iraq and Afghanistan.
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President Bush will have breakfast with the troops at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii today and get a briefing from senior officers before heading back to Washington after an eight-day Asian trip.
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The U.S. military is planning to deploy about 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan this spring to counter an expected offensive by Taliban insurgents, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday, citing NATO allies' failure to provide additional combat troops.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul  Wolfowitz will visit Asia to assess aid needs after last  month's tsunami, including how long affected countries want  U.S. troops to remain, a defense official said on Thursday.
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The U.S. military is likely to wrap up its relief efforts for tsunami victims in Indonesia this month, a Navy commander said Saturday, a move that would end the biggest American military operation in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War.
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The U.S. government Tuesday sought custody of a U.S. Marine convicted of rape in the Philippines, but Manila said a judge will have to decide.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is considering plans to send an extra 3,000 marines to Afghanistan.
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JOLO, Philippines  - U.S. troops are moving into   the interior of a remote Philippine island that is the hideout   of the country's most notorious Islamic rebels, but only to   provide health care and to build schools.
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European and Asian countries with U.S. troops have braced for the changes for several years, but Bush's announcement Monday that up to 70,000 uniformed personnel and 100,000 dependents will gradually be moved ...
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The United States has asked a Muslim  separatist group in the Philippines to help security forces  track down radicals with links to a regional terror group, a  U.S. embassy spokesman said on Saturday.
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The U.S. Marine Corps will start   ordering what could be thousands of inactive service members to   return to duty in the coming months to counter a steady decline   in the number of such troops who volunteer, the service said on   Tuesday.
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The US is sending up to 600 marines and relief supplies to flood-ravaged areas of the Philippines.