Posts Tagged ‘troops’
Syrian troops kill 10 in eastern city (AP)
AP – Activists say Syrian security forces have shot dead at least 10 people in an eastern city despite the presence of an Arab observer mission in the area.
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Activists: Syrian troops kill more protesters (AP)
AP – Arab League monitors gathered accounts about the Syrian government’s crackdown on dissent in the central city of Homs Wednesday as fresh violence flared just dozens of miles away. Activists said troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least six.
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Troops hit protesters marching into Yemen capital (AP)
AP – Yemen’s outgoing president said Saturday he would leave the country for the United States to help calm tensions in his country as forces commanded by his son and nephew opened fire on more than 100,000 protesters marching into the capital, killing at least nine.
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Activists say Syrian troops kill 100 in village (AP)
AP – Government forces surrounded residents of a restive Syrian village in a valley and killed all those trapped inside — more than 100 people — in a barrage of rockets, tank shells, bombs and gunfire that lasted for hours, a witness and two activist groups said Wednesday.
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Seoul: NKorea raises security, has troops on alert (AP)
AP – North Korea has tightened internal security and put troops on alert since the announcement of leader Kim Jong Il’s death in moves to consolidate power behind his young son and heir, South Korean intelligence indicated Wednesday.
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Last troops exit Iraq in subdued end to 9-year war (AP)
AP – Outside it was pitch dark. The six American soldiers couldn’t see much of the desert landscape streaming by outside the small windows of their armored vehicle. They were hushed and exhausted from an all-night drive — part of the last convoy of U.S. troops to leave Iraq during the final moment of a nearly nine-year war.
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Elated, last US troops leave Iraq, ending war (AP)
AP – The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief. Their convoy’s exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left Iraq shattered and struggling to recover.
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