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NATO wants big pullout from Afghanistan by end-2014 (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Sgt. Ysidro Gonzalez, of Alice, Texas, from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Alpha Company storms through the door of a compound after the door was blown open to search for bomb-making materials during a patrol that came under fire from Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in Helmand province, in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/FilesReuters - The head of NATO said on Friday the alliance would start turning security over to Afghan forces next year under a plan NATO officials say will allow for…

UN chief in Rwanda over threatened Sudan pullout (AP)

September 8th, 2010

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Rwanda’s president Wednesday after he threatened to withdraw thousands of Rwandan peacekeepers if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda’s army…

Australia may start Afghanistan pullout in 2 years (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

AP - Australia may start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in two years if its mission to train Afghan soldiers goes as planned, the defense minister said Wednesday.

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APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace (AP)

May 11th, 2010

Police and civil defence gather at the site of a bus explosion in Iskandiriyah, 50kms south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence after insurgents killed 110 people in a devastating wave of attacks in five cities the previous day, Iraq's bloodiest this year.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AP - American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq’s inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of a major troop pullout this summer, U.S. officials said…