Topic: Barack Obama
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama welcomed home some of the last U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, marking a symbolic end to the nearly nine-year war that strained America's armed forces and inflicted lasting damage to its standing ...
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama welcomed home some of the last U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, marking a symbolic end to the nearly nine-year war that strained America's armed forces and inflicted lasting damage to its standing ...
President Barack Obama will Wednesday embrace returning troops and seek to turn the page on the divisive, bloody and costly period of modern US history stained by the Iraq war.He will pay homage to military sacrifices and seek to move Americans towards ...
US President Barack Obama vowed an "enduring" partnership with a "self-reliant" and sovereign Iraq, touting his promise kept to end a wrenching war as he met Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.Obama said the last US soldiers would leave Iraq this month "with heads ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday in a visit to mark the end of the U.S. war in Iraq as troops complete withdrawal by year-end.Biden's trip spotlights the fulfillment of a key pledge by President Barack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rejected accusations at a heated Senate hearing on Tuesday that U.S. politics helped drive the decision to completely withdraw from Iraq this year without leaving any troops behind as trainers.The October 21 drawdown announcement by ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday implicitly warned Iran not to interfere in Iraq after the decision to pull all American troops out of the war-wracked state by the end of the year.Clinton, on a visit to Tajikistan, echoed President ...
Iraqis voiced happiness on Saturday over President Barack Obama's declaration that US forces will leave by year-end, but some spoke of concern the pullout could further destabilise their country.The decision to withdraw all remaining soldiers in the country after nearly nine years ...
US President Barack Obama said all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war which cleaved deep political divides and estranged the United States from its allies.The decision, announced Friday, came after Iraq failed to ...
President Barack Obama said Friday all US troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war which cleaved deep political divides and estranged the United States from its allies.The decision came after Iraq failed to agree to ...