WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded US training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief policy aide.
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MOSUL: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Iraq on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, said Friday the United States could extend its troop presence in the country beyond the scheduled 2011 pullout.
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WASHINGTON: Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly US missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya's Moammar Qaddafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its (...)