Troops

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 46 minutes ago
AFP - Republican candidate John McCain will Thursday say that as president, he would get most US Troops home from Iraq by 2013, for the first time setting a timeline to end the war. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 1 hour ago
Israeli Troops are firing live rounds and tear gas to disperse dozens of Palestinian stonethrowers in a confrontation at a Gaza border crossing. ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 1 hour ago
Senator John McCain’s projection in a speech on Thursday is a striking departure from his refusal so far to set a date for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. ...

Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com --- 1 hour ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 hours ago
The House Armed Services Committee approved a bill early Thursday that authorizes $601.4 billion in defense spending for next year, including a 3.9 percent pay raise for Troops. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 3 hours ago
In surprising remarks in Ohio, McCain foresees successes in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan and the death of bin Laden. ...

Source: www.jpost.com --- 3 hours ago
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Source: www.abc.net.au --- 1 hour ago
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute recommends that more aid and more Australian soldiers be sent to Afghanistan. The Institute argues that an increased effort now will speed up Australia's ultimate withdrawl from that country. ...

Source: www.ctv.ca --- 6 hours ago
Thousands of Chinese soldiers arrived at the epicentre of a deadly earthquake Wednesday, but with few tools available, Troops were forced to dig for survivors by hand. ...

Source: www.startribune.com --- 3 hours ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 hours ago
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Source: www.thehindu.com --- 5 hours ago
Srinagar/Islamabad: In the first violation of the five-year-old ceasefire, Pakistan Troops opened unprovoked fire on an Indian border post in Tangdhar region in north Kashmir on Tuesday night but no casualty was reported. Using heavy ... ...

Source: www.star-telegram.com --- 1 hour ago
Hundreds of dams around the epicenter of China's earthquake have been damaged and Chinese Troops scrambled Wednesday to plug cracks and open sluices to prevent flooding of already devastated communities. ...

Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com --- 4 hours ago
That's the headline from Sen. McCain's speech today in Columbus, Ohio on his governing style. Call it McCain's FutureWorld: from the excerpts provided to reporters, the speech appears to be a sketch of the hopeful, much-improved condition of the United States as seen from 2013, when McCain begins his second term. (Or Presidents Pawlenty or Clinton begin their first term.) Attention will be paid to McCain's vision for Iraq. By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced. Civil war has been prevented; militias disbanded; the Iraqi Security Force is professional and competent; al Qaeda in Iraq has been defeated; and the Government of Iraq is capable of imposing its authority in every province of Iraq and defending the integrity of its borders. The United States maintains a military presence there, but a much smaller one, and it does not play a direct combat role. You can read the excerpts after the jump, but check out this paragraph full of meaty McCain promises: If I am elected President, I will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. I will listen ...

Source: www.shanghaidaily.com --- 7 hours ago
MORE than 131,000 army, armed police and special policemen have been dispatched to earthquake-ravaged Sichuan Province to take part in rescue work. By 8am today, 131,000 personnel had been sent to the frontlines... ...

Source: www.kmsnews.org --- 4 hours ago
Srinagar, May 15 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, an Indian trooper of Border Security Force committed suicide by hanging himself at army headquarter in Bandipora taking the death toll of such killings amongst the Troops to 86 since January 2007. read more ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 5 hours ago
Ramallah/Marking the 60th anniversary of the loss of their villages in what is now Israel, hundreds of Palestinian refugees clashed with Israeli soldiers at military checkpoints in the West Bank Wednesday. ...

Source: www.teletext.co.uk --- 9 minutes ago
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appeared to hint that British troop levels in Iraq could be cut soon. ...

Source: www.thewest.com.au --- 9 hours ago
Thousands of Chinese Troops rushed to plug cracks in a dam in earthquake-hit Sichuan province but experts later said the site was safe. The official Xinhua News Agency said 2000 Troops were se ...

Source: citizen-times.com --- 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Armed Services Committee approved a bill early this morning that authorizes $601.4 billion in defense spending for next year, including a 3.9 percent pay raise for Troops. ...