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Canada has 2,500 troops in Afghanistan's violent Kandahar region, and Harper's minority Conservative government reached a compromise agreement this year with opposition parties to end the mission in 2011.
Canada has 2,500 troops in Afghanistan's violent Kandahar region, and... more
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Some interesting news broke today that has been buried amid the orgy of convention coverage: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said -- apparently in a speech to tribal leaders in the Green Zone -- that the U.S. and Iraq had agreed that all "foreign soldiers" would leave Iraq by the end of 2011. Maliki was promptly shot down by the White House, which maintained there is no pullout date.
Some interesting news broke today that has been buried amid the orgy of convention... more
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United States could be reached unless it included a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
Last week, U.S. and Iraqi officials said the two sides had agreed tentatively to a schedule which included a broad pullout of combat forces by the end of 2011 with a residual U.S. force remaining behind to continue training and advising the Iraqi security forces.
But al-Maliki's remarks Monday suggested that the Iraqi government is still not satisfied with that arrangement.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United... more
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