Tag: Troops
First man on moon rallies Afghan troops
Neil Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, jetted into Afghanistan this week with two other lunar greats to give a much-needed...
Syrian troops storm port city, one dead
Syrian troops stormed the port city of Latakia and sprayed it with gunfire on Saturday, killing at least one person, activists said, while the...
Bomb kills five NATO troops
Five NATO soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the Taliban rejected a US claim to have killed the...
5 NATO troops killed in Afghan bomb attack
A bomb attack on Thursday killed five NATO troops in southern Afghanistan, the main battleground with the Taliban, the US-led International Security Assistance Force...
Coalition says four NATO troops killed in attacks
Four service members from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed in two separate attacks on Sunday, the coalition said, the day after 30...
NATO to send extra troops to Kosovo
NATO will send hundreds more troops to Kosovo after an escalation of violence there between ethnic Albanians and Serbs last week, NATO officials said...
Assad praises troops for ‘foiling enemies’ of Syria
President Bashar al-Assad praised troops for "foiling the enemies" of Syria, state news agency SANA said on Monday, a day after security forces reportedly...
Israeli, Lebanese troops exchange fire on border
Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire on their often tense border on Monday morning, officials on both sides said, with the two armies trading...
First US troops leave Afghanistan as drawdown begins
The first American soldiers of about 10,000 due to leave Afghanistan this year have flown home, military officials said on Friday, kicking off a...
First US troops leave Afghanistan as drawdown begins
The first group of about 10,000 US soldiers due to leave Afghanistan this year have already left, military officials said Friday, kicking off a...
Muammar Gaddafi troops in counter-attack south of Tripoli
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday tried to re-take a village south of the capital seized by rebels a week ago,...
1,000 French troops to leave by 2012: Sarkozy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said during a visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday that France would pull out 1,000 troops by the end of 2012,...
Pakistan will pull troops from Afghan border if US cuts aid:...
Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said that Pakistan will pull troops back from the Pak-Afghan border in reaction to the suspension of nearly...
France to withdraw 1,000 troops from Afghanistan by end-2012
France is to withdraw a quarter of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on a surprise...
Canada to officially end Afghan combat mission
Canada was to officially end its combat mission in Afghanistan on Thursday, after nine years of fighting which saw it lose 157 troops and...
‘Britain to pull 500 troops from Afghanistan’
Britain will withdraw a further 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, but will keep soldiers in the country in a...
9 troops slain in militant attacks
Attacks killed nine Pakistani soldiers on Tuesday, targeting troops in the militant-infested tribal badlands near Afghanistan and further south on the border with Iran,...
