President Musharraf has warned the situation will remain potentially volatile while the soldiers are there.
But while the soldiers growl, the politicians have made progress.
U.S.-led coalition forces encircled Baghdad Sunday, closing off highways in and out of the Iraqi capital while armed Iraqi soldiers manned the streets and hunkered down for battle.
While the firm grips of so many soldiers sometimes can make the greeters' hands a little sore, the volunteers get used to the strong handshakes.
While in Afghanistan, the soldiers were assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Support Battalion and served in a variety of roles including providing infantry forces, searching for Improvised Explosive Devices, and working with the Afghan Security Forces.
But unlike in other parts of the world, the U.S. will most likely engage by providing technical and logical support while expecting the continent to deploy soldiers.
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The ancient Persian king Xerxes noted that eating the leaves improved his soldiers' vigor, while the Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard prescribed the plant for restoring the bloom to ladies' cheeks.
Francois Bozize fled the capital, while South Africa said 13 soldiers were killed in the fighting.
Some of them now control critical places such as the airport, while Congolese soldiers sit idle in their barracks.
Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.
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He said the three U.S. soldiers, captured a week ago while on patrol near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border, were being treated well.
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Afghanistan halted new recruitment for its police force, while hundreds of soldiers are purged from the army.
When Roman forces built Hadrian's Wall, very few of their men were Italians, most of them were Spanish, Gallic and German soldiers, while several of the auxiliary units who took over garrison duty from the legionaries came from North Africa.
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The EU plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
The EU also plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
The soldiers pick off the undead while an armored vehicle arrives to extract the team.
Jet-packs give people the ability to soar through the air like Superman while protective clothing keeps soldiers and emergency personnel safe from weapons, fire and other extreme elements.
The grounds on a tree-sheltered promontory near New York's Hudson River are reserved for West Point graduates and cadets, soldiers who die while assigned to the academy, and immediate family members.
While the Israeli army had already issued warnings to soldiers not to reveal details of future operations, it now wants to stop them posting videos and pictures of themselves on the Internet.
Audin and his officers walked out from behind this building while his soldiers, wearing pressed uniforms rather than the normal mix of camouflage and civilian attire, assembled in two ranks.
While many professional soldiers feel that an Army with the five brigades, the force established under the Coalition government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (the SDSR), has sunk below a critical level, I would argue that they have probably got off the lightest of the three services.
The world premiere theatre performance of Black Diggers presents the touching, never-before-told stories of 1, 000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in WWI, while The Shadow King is a poignant and thought-provoking Indigenous re-working of King Lear, performed through a mix of live rock music using both English and Kriol (an Indigenous Australian dialect).
In 2012, for the first time in at least a generation, the number of active-duty soldiers who killed themselves, 177, exceeded the 176 who were killed while in the war zone.
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Half the soldiers slept at the aid station, while Romesha and his men bunked down in the barracks.
Although I was able to smile at them briefly, I knew that my job was to help my fellow soldiers and scan for potential threats while patrolling the province.
Officials said the commanders will face a challenge of continuing training of Afghan forces while overseeing the extraction of tons of equipment and thousands of soldiers over the course of the year.
U.S. officials acknowledged that commanders will face a challenge of continuing to train Afghan forces while overseeing the extraction of tons of equipment and thousands of soldiers over the course of the year.
Advances in lightweight, nanoscale-engineered materials will protect soldiers on the battlefield from bullets and shrapnel while giving them extreme mobility.
He said he was afraid of reporting the crime while he was in Iraq, fearing his fellow soldiers would turn on him.
Kiowa helicopters fired several rockets into a building, while U.S. soldiers fired grenade launchers to quell the resistance before they were able to enter, Chilcote said.
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