France has been pushing hard for the deployment of West African troops and the arrival of the first Nigerian troops should bring some relief to French soldiers who are only getting limited support from the fairly weak Malian army, analysts say.
In 1965, when the first American troops went into action in support of the South, Mr Thieu was the head of the military government.
He arrived in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and served in New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa before being among the first American troops to enter Japan after the surrender.
But the view was much the same as in 1859, when British troops first marched into Waziristan.
The Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) was among the first wave of troops.
Controlling the warlords proved more difficult than anyone had expected, and ten months after American troops first landed, a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down during a mission to capture one of those warlords.
At some point on his road back, Campbell learned of the Troops First Foundation and Operation Proper Exit, charities that provide opportunities for severely injured service members to return to the locations where they sustained their injuries and, instead of being medically evacuated, provide them the opportunity to walk to the aircraft and climb the ramp.
JoulwanThis mission is the first time that NATO troops will work alongside non-NATO troops.
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On Monday, the first contingent of Japanese troops arrived in Iraq.
Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ever since Mr Obama first announced when American troops would begin to withdraw, many Afghans have been stalked by the fear of a return to the early 1990s, when the world abandoned them and the country imploded under the pressures of ethnic tensions and scheming neighbours.
In December, the Iraq Study Group recommended that 25 percent of the U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by the first quarter of 2008 and said the remaining troops should be shifted to more secure positions.
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The figure of 20, 000 U.S. troops was the first official estimate to be given.
The first contingent of 70 German troops is due to arrive in Afghanistan to join the international stabilization force.
If a ceasefire could not be agreed simultaneously, then government troops should stop first, followed by the opposition, he argued.
I've spent much of the past two months visiting with these troops -- first, in military facilities around the U.S., and then over several days at a number of forward-operating bases in Afghanistan.
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The first fully trained battalion of Malian troops is expected to be operational in July.
She made headlines on her first day in office by inspecting troops when seven months' pregnant.
Nigeria has pledged to send 900 troops, with the first 200 arriving in Mali by Wednesday night.
Although the biggest contingent of the National Guard comes from Alabama, Florida has more men in the front line, and they were among the first to enter Iraq alongside regular troops.
In recent years, though, they've been regarded as, you know, light assault troops who go in first, grab whatever needs to be taken, and then give way to more heavily armed forces in the Army.
This week, the United States for the first time refused to rule out deploying troops.
Their troops took a beating at first, yet the British stood aside (their commander was away skiing).
Iraqis vote Saturday in what will be the country's first election since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.
The inspectors first began work in Iraq after its troops were expelled from neighbouring Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf war.
This is the first poll since the withdrawal of US troops in December 2011, and is therefore a test of how capable the Iraqis are of running security during elections.
On Thursday, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced in parliament that Germany would start to pull out some of its troops from Afghanistan in the first half of 2011, ending its mission by 2014.
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Pakistani officials have denied that their troops on the ridge opened fire first on the U.S. and Afghan commandos.
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