Topic: United States
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 ...
Iraq's disputed oil-rich Kirkuk province may turn into fertile ground for militant groups including Al-Qaeda after the US withdrawal, officials from the province warn.Ethnically divided Kirkuk lies at the centre of a tract of territory which Kurdish leaders want to incorporate in ...
A maximum of 763 civilian contractors and 157 US military personnel will train Iraqi security forces post-2011, if the Iraqi government gives its approval, a US officer said on Wednesday.US President Barack Obama announced on October 21 that US troops would depart ...
US forces shot dead two Iraqi civilians south of Baghdad on Saturday following a bomb attack on their convoy, Iraq security officials said, while the US military denied its soldiers opened fire."A roadside bomb hit a US convoy in Yusifiyah on the ...
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - In Iraq's northern oil city Kirkuk, home to a volatile mix of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, politicians and residents fear a possible explosion of ethnic conflict when American troops leave.With prospects that U.S. forces will leave Iraq by ...
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 ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has handed over to the Iraqi government its 2nd largest Iraq base, a joint army and air force complex that housed some 36,000 American troops and contractors at the peak of the war, U.S. officials said.Joint ...
The "vast majority" of remaining US troops in Iraq will be out by mid-December as the American military's withdrawal picks up pace, a US general said Thursday.Less than 34,000 troops remain in Iraq after reaching a peak of 170,000 in 2007 during ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American soldiers in Iraq are packing up military gear and shutting down bases as the United States races to remove all but a couple hundred troops by year's end.In Afghanistan, U.S. generals are scrambling to stretch a shrinking force ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq climbed sharply in October, according to government figures, amid concerns about security after U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to pull out U.S. troops.The Health Ministry said 161 civilians were killed ...
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