Georgia Announces Troop Pullback in Rebel Region
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory, in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift toward war in an economically vital region.
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Ivory Coast on Sunday ordered a  pullback from an offensive on the rebel-held north after France  destroyed its airpower in a retaliatory strike which sparked  mob attacks on French citizens and property.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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The Russian military will cut its deployment in Chechnya by about 1,000 troops and stop using conscripts in the war against separatist rebels next year, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday.
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Ivory Coast on Sunday ordered a pullback from an offensive on the rebel-held north after France destroyed its airpower in a retaliatory strike which sparked mob attacks on French citizens and property.
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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Russia began pulling out some of its   officials from Georgia on Friday as the crisis mounted between   the two former Soviet states over spying charges.
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Commanders in Iraq have decided to begin the drawdown of U.S. forces in volatile Diyala province, marking a turning point in the U.S. military mission, The Associated Press has learned
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Russia orders the partial withdrawal of officials in Georgia as a spying row intensifies.
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Prague, 17 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Georgia&#39;s separatist republic of South Ossetia today said Tbilisi has agreed to withdraw all Interior Ministry troops sent into the region last June in violation of the 1992 peace agreement.
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At least four Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, Georgian officers near the frontline with Ossetian forces said early Thursday.
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The Republic of Georgia said Thursday it is raising the number of its soldiers serving with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq to more than 2,000 from the current 850.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general said today that Russia has completed withdrawal of troops that had been based in Georgia since the Soviet collapse, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. The presence of Russian troops in the former Soviet republic was one of the longtime irritants between Georgia and its neighbor. "There are no more Russian troops in Georgia; ...
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More than 600 troops are to be withdrawn from Bosnia-Hercegovina, defence minister Adam Ingram confirms.
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The commander of Ivory Coast's ground  offensive against rebels in the north ordered troops to  withdraw from the frontline on Sunday as France flew in more  soldiers to its West African former colony.
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Georgian forces seized strategic  heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia on  Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such  victories to fulfil a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Six Georgian soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a fierce overnight fighting in Georgia&#39;s rebel province of South Ossetia, reports reaching here said on Thursday.