Posts Tagged ‘troops’

England: the security plan Bush needs more troops

January 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Perhaps 7,000 more American troops would be necessary for the security plan developed by U.S. President George W. Bush, who plans to send 21,500 additional troops in Iraq, said Tuesday the Pentagon’s number two, Gordon England.
The Pentago...

Bulgaria strengthens its troops to peacekeeping in Afghanistan

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Bulgaria will send more troops to Afghanistan by next fall, said Monday the Bulgarian Minister of Defense Veselin Bliznakov.
Bliznakov said during a military ceremony that 200 Bulgarian soldiers are deployed to defend the airport in the city of ...

Britain denies any link between the redeployment of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

December 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Secretary British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Wednesday that there was no link between the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and increasing numbers in Afghanistan.
There is no connection between the reconfiguration of British tr...

Most Americans want a date for troop withdrawal

December 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Most Americans want to be a fixed date for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and new requirements to limit the mission of the United States in the country, according to results of a new survey by the Washington Post and ABC News.
The survey in...

Syria and Malaysia called for a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq

December 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Syria and Malaysia on Monday called for a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq within a defined timetable, reported official news agency SANA.
The appeal was launched at a meeting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Malaysian Pri...

Bush calls for more troops to NATO allies on Afghanistan

December 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday urged NATO allies to provide more troops to Afghanistan to fill the security vacuum there.
In his speech to the American Institute of Enterprise (AEI), Bush said that NATO allies must lift restrictions o...

Americans want a complete withdrawal from Iraq within two years

December 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Americans support overwhelmingly to cap the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and set a timetable for bringing the country by the end of the year, according to a poll released Tuesday by USA Today and Gallup.
This attitude is stronger than the non-b...

A Canadian Senate committee recommended the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan

December 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Canada should consider withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan unless NATO can dispatch reinforcements to the country, said Monday the Commission on Security and Defense of the Canadian Senate.
The Commission proposed in a report the withdrawal ...

Ethiopian troops will leave Somalia in three phases

November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Wednesday that the Ethiopian forces, who fought the Union of Islamic Courts alongside the transitional government in Somalia last month, would leave the country in three phases.
Meles said that the depl...

Ethiopian troops begin their withdrawal from Somalia

November 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Ethiopian forces have begun their withdrawal from Somalia, it was learned information coming to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
The retiront Ethiopian troops from Somalia in stages, and the first contingent involved approximately 200 soldiers, said...