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MSNBC
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The fighting in Sadr City, which has eased somewhat in recent days, has colored an election-year debate in the United States about how soon to withdraw U.S. troops.
On Thursday, President Bush said he would suspend further reductions in troops from Jul..
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MSNBC
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Venezuela and Ecuador have ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, raising concerns of a broader conflict after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised Venezuela would respond mi..
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MSNBC
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Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday.
The ground operation started after Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed suspected rebel targets on Thursday, the milit..
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MSNBC
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The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said. A Turkish official said the troops were still in Iraq by midmorning.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an..
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BBC News
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Afghan army troops have captured the Taleban-held town of Musa Qala without meeting resistance, the Nato-led force in Afghanistan has said.
The insurgents have pulled out of what was the only major Afghan centre in Taleban hands, reportedly melting awa..
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BBC News
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Large numbers of troops and police are enforcing a state of emergency in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, following clashes with opposition protesters.
All rallies in the country are banned and only state TV can broadcast news.
President Mikhail Saakashvi..
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MSNBC
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Iraq will take over security from British troops in Basra province within two months, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn b..
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USA Today
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A bomb attack Friday against a convoy of French troops killed one soldier and caused many casualties among Afghans near the blast, while heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan killed about 75 Taliban fighters, officials said.
The attack in western Kabu..
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CNN
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Machine-gun fire hit a U.S. military airplane flying food to Malian troops fighting rebels in the far north of the country but no one was wounded and the plane landed safely, officials said Thursday. The C-130 was hit late Tuesday or early Wednesday over..
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USA Today
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U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by helicopters killed three civilians in the Shiite slum of Sadr City on Monday in a pre-dawn raid on the home of a suspected militia leader, police and residents said.
Ground forces searched four houses but failed to find..
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CNN
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Three British soldiers were killed in a suspected "friendly fire" incident involving a bomb dropped from a U.S. fighter plane during a clash with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, military officials said Friday. The three British troops were died during a..
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news.cincypost.com
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For years, the list of enemies targeting U.S. troops in Iraq has included Sunni insurgents, Shiite militia and, more recently, a group that calls itself al-Qaida of Mesopotamia. The enemies list in Iraq also includes outsiders such as Iran and Syria, who..
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BBC News
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The Philippine government is deploying extra troops to the south after some of the bloodiest clashes with militants left more than 50 people dead.
The military said it had lost 26 soldiers and killed around 31 militants in three days of fighting on the..
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CNN
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the Taliban still endanger innocent people, but they pose no significant threat either to his government or to its institutions. "It's a force that is defeated, frustrated, acting in cowardice by killing chil..
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CNN
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Sudan on Wednesday endorsed a U.N. resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide real protection to civilians in one of the world's most embattled regions. If fully deployed, the troops w..
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CNN
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Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue a group of South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says. "Afghan forces and international troops have launched a join..
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FOX News
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The Senate rejected a plan Wednesday to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq by early next year after spending an all-night session debating whether to demand President Bush change the mission.
The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off de..
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Washington Post
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Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are c..
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Associated Press
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Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press.
Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity..
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FOX News
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Israeli tanks and infantry pulled out of the southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, halting the largest ground operation in the area in months.
The troops entered the sparsely populated area on Monday, pushing more than a mile into Gaza. Soldiers searched..
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