12,000 Number of U.S. soldiers to withdraw from Iraq by September 12 Number of combat brigades to be left in Iraq after the troops leave in September ...more

March 9, 2009

The U.S. military has announced that 12,000 American and 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by September. ...more

March 8, 2009

A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama's inauguration, according to administration officials. ...more

February 24, 2009

The Army needs to add at least 30,000 active-duty soldiers to its ranks to ful- fill its responsibilities around the world without becoming stretched dangerously thin, senior Army officials warn. ...more

December 26, 2008

The Bush administration, in the midst of a wide review of its war strategy in Afghanistan, is likely to recommend soon to the incoming Obama administration that the United States push for further expansion of the Afghan army as the surest path to an eventual U.S. withdrawal, The Associated Press has learned. The strategy review, which began in September amid increasing militant violence and a growing U.S. and allied death toll, is being coordinated at the White House and is expected to be presented by December. ...more

November 17, 2008

Brigades of some 1,600 volunteers hope to make a clean sweep of the county next weekend. ...more

September 13, 2008

The Pentagon is determined to overhaul the training and active duty tours for the Army National Guard. ...more

August 20, 2008

John McCain told fellow veterans Monday that Democratic rival Barack Obama tried to legislate failure in Iraq and has refused to admit he erred last year when opposing the military increase there. ...more

August 19, 2008

Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defense Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official. ...more

July 24, 2008