Manila Joins Global Protest vs US Military Presence in Iraq
When the US military withdraws completely by the end of the year per President Obama’s announcement today, the State Department will take over the mission in 2012. Here’s a snapshot of what the American presence in Iraq will look like once the troops are gone: EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES Th...
“Obviously, the United States has some strategy, which, I think, is geared to keep its military presence in Syria forever,” Lavrov added. “They are seeking to do the same in Iraq and in Afghanistan, in spite of all their previous promises.” “They [the United States] seem to be s...
announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year, with U.S. troops departing some bases that they have long occupied during a two-decade-l...
“As they put more forces in, that could allow us to decrease” the U.S. military’s workload there, he said. Esper is looking for ways to reduce the U.S. troop presence in Iraq so that some can be brought home to focus on longer-term challenges, particularly from China. Similarl...
By undermining Iraqi military forces, the US aims to prepare the ground for the reemergence of Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, so that US can once again use these terrorists as its own subordinate soldiers in Iraq and will also justify its own military presence in the country. ...
Editor's note:On March 20,2003,the United States launched a military invasion of Iraq,the second time it fought a war in that country in a little more than 10 years.Now,two decades after war broke out,China Daily reviews how the US broke a unified state at the heart of the Arab ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese diplomats expressed their strong opposition to an expanded United States military presence in the Philippines in closed-door talks with their Filipino counterparts Thursday in Manila, a Filipino official said, undersco
There are still 2,500 American troops in Iraq on a train and advise mission to help Iraqi military forces against ISIS. Earlier this year the United States and Iraq began discussions about a possible reduction in the role of the international military coalition assisting Iraq ...
MOSCOW, Apr. 03 (MNA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed on Monday that the US military presence in Syria is illegal and contrary to the UN Charter. During a joint press conference with his Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali in Moscow, Lavrov expressed his country...