VP Biden Visits Iraq Before US Troops Withdraw U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has made Tuesday a previously unannounced visit to Iraq. The vice president has been meeting with Iraqi leaders, about a month before a deadline for U.S. forces to withdraw

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 21 December 2006 watch Iraq Troop Debate In a recent front-page story, the Washington Post newspaper reported the White House and Joint Chiefs of Staff are at odds over sending 15,000 to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Ir

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By Scott Stearns White House 22 March 2008 President Bush marked Easter weekend with a message of thanks for U.S. troops serving overseas. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats say the war in Iraq is distracting fr

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Kenya's prime minister says the government is not ready to say whether the country's military will intervene in the conflict in neighboring Somalia. Kenya and other countries in the region are under intense pressure from the Somali government to sen

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Broadcast: Mar 18 2003 There are signs some Iraqi troops are interested in surrender even before U.S. forces launch an expected invasion. A senior 1) Pentagon official said there are indications some

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 01 April 2008 The day before a key NATO summit in Bucharest, the French government announced Tuesday it would send several hundred troops to reinforce the alliance's operation in Afghanistan. Lisa Bryant reports for VOA from Pari

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The Pentagon says just the presence of regular Pakistani army troops in the country's tribal areas, along the Afghanistan border, helps reduce the flow of militant fighters in the region, even though the United States would like the Pakistani troops

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By Al Pessin Washington 21 September 2009 U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal (r) commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and German Colonel Georg Klein at site of bombing near Kunduz, 05 Sep 2009 A report from the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanista

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Residents in the Somali town of Beledweyne are reporting that Ethiopian soldiers, who had apparently seized the town two days earlier, have partially withdrawn from the formerly rebel-held western part of town. Ethiopia's alleged military action on

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US Troops Leave Iraq with Job Concerns For American troops leaving Iraq this month, there is a sense of relief but also worry about returning to civilian life and searching for jobs in a weak U.S. economy. U.S. troops along the Iraq-Kuwait border, wh

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US Troops Clear Highway for Pullout from Iraq All U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the month. The road south to Kuwait has been a hotbed of anti-American violence, roadside bombs and assaults by insurgents. Teams like Minnesota's

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Obama: All US Troops Out of Iraq by Year End President Barack Obama announced on Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year. The announcement came after months of negotiations with the Iraqi government on extendin

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated Thursday he might be receptive if his new commander in Afghanistan asks for more troops, but he is still concerned that having too many foreign forces in the country could alienate its people. Defense Se

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Mali Residents Wary As French Troops Withdraw French military patrols roll through Gao's neighborhoods like clockwork. It is textbook counterinsurgency. Residents say it is reassuring. But they are leaving. The French have done most of the heavy lift

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will begin withdrawing Syrian troops from central Lebanon, first to an eastern region and later to the countries' common border. 叙利亚总统阿萨德说,他将开始把叙利亚部队撤出黎巴嫩中部,

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has received a multi-billion-dollar debt waiver from Japan, but he was not able to win a solid commitment from the Japanese to keep their troops in southern Iraq. The waiver represents 80 percent of the debt run

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--By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 08 November 2006 125 Indonesian troops have left for Lebanon to join a United Nations peacekeeping force. About 800 more Indonesian troops are expected to arrive in Beirut by the end of the month. Indonesian peaceke

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Britain confirms an additional 500 British troops will be heading to Afghanistan next month, bringing its force level there to 9,500 Jennifer Glasse | London 30 November 2009 British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth (L), Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup

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By Malcolm Brown Washington 03 September 2007 As it seeks to reduce the dangers faced by American troops in Iraq, the U.S. military is turning to technology originally devised by the apartheid-era government of South Africa to counter similar threats

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U.S. President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan by the summer of 2010, and plans to start withdrawing American forces a year later. The president laid out his strategy for winning the war in Afghanistan. Washington | Ken

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