"Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

He set a time limit for withdrawal of most American troops from Iraq, while increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

A recent security agreement between Iraq and the United States sets a plan for American troop withdrawal by 2012.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

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He was one of only twenty-three senators who voted in two thousand two against supporting the invasion of Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Officials say he shot at unarmed soldiers and civilians as troops were preparing for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The president said one of his greatest "disappointments" was the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

But he said the voting made it clear, in his words, "that the future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq."

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Iraq moved up two places this year and is now ranked fourth from the bottom, along with Sudan.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Experts credit him with a successful counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq in two thousand seven and two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

VOA: special.2010.08.07