Mr Obama has promised to bring home US combat troops from Iraq in a little over a year from when he takes office in January.

奥巴马则承诺在一月正式任职后一年左右，能够实现将所有驻扎在伊拉克的美军战斗部队全部撤回国内。

youdao

Mr Obama also promised to start bringing the troops home this summer.

奥巴马先生还许诺要在今年夏天开始撤军。

youdao

I thought you promised to capture him by expanding teh Afghan troops.

我记得你承诺过会通过在阿富汗扩军而抓住他。

youdao

President Obama again promised to remove all American combat troops from Iraq by the end of August.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Britain has promised to send an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan, bringing its force total to 9,500,second only to the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

He said British troops would stay on in Afghanistan for the time being, but promised increased emphasis on training the Afghan military and police to take over responsibility for security.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

But he, too, is short of people: by this week, just over half the 55, 000 troops promised had arrived.

ECONOMIST: Reinventing Kosovo is already proving hard

The African contingent is expected to be bolstered to 7, 900, including 2, 200 troops promised by Chad, AP news agency quotes a Nigerian military official, Col Shehu Usman Abdulkadir, as saying.

BBC: Mali crisis: French-led troops 'surround Timbuktu'

But those countries that have promised troops are still holding off on a firm commitment.

NPR: U.N. Troop Plan Slow to Materialize