FACTBOX: Foreign military forces in Iraq

Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:28am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Iraq and the United States have agreed that a planned security pact will require all U.S. troops to leave by the end of 2011, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday, while Washington said no final deal had been reached.

The Iraqi government has said it is proposing U.S. troops end patrols of Iraqi towns and villages by the middle of next year, and that U.S. combat troops leave Iraq by 2011.

Both Baghdad and Washington signal a deal is close. U.S. officials in Washington said there had been a draft agreement, but noted that discussions continue and that several more steps are needed before it could be considered final.

The U.S. military has transported the 2,000-strong Georgian contingent back home earlier this month because of the conflict with Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia.

El Salvador said earlier in August that it would deploy 200 soldiers to Iraq to replace the country's current force of 280 troops that distribute humanitarian supplies.

About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq in early June, fulfilling an election promise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring the soldiers home in 2008. A small force of security and headquarters liaison troops remain in Iraq.

Here is a table, by country, of coalition forces in Iraq.

United States 140,000

Britain 4,100

OTHER COUNTRIES:

South Korea 933

Poland 900

Romania 500

Australia 300

El Salvador 200

Azerbaijan 150  Continued...

 

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