Mr. Maliki also rebuffed a White House appeal that Iraq continue to detain a Hezbollah operative from Lebanon who had been linked to the death of American troops.
Darka e gabuar (2008; The Fall of the Stone City) traces the lives of two doctors following a series of strange events linked to the entry of Nazi troops into Gjirokastër still reeling from the recent Italian occupation in 1943.
In a trick of almost literary irony, the cholera bacterium itself has been linked to the controversial United Nations stabilization troops who have been the sole force of order in Haiti since 2004, and who are providing security and logistics for the elections.
The United States military said Sunday that rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have dipped to their lowest level since February 2006, a decrease it linked to the increase in American troop levels this year.
Joint STAR, U-2 spy planes, unmanned air vehicles and satellites fed data on the opponent's movements to the 4th Infantry's command post, which in turn was linked to the brigade's tanks, troop carriers and the laptop computers of unit commanders via e-mail and a private Internet site.
While another neighbour, Iran, has been linked to the explosives used against American troops in Afghanistan.
Though there is debate about the first instance, it's clear they are deeply linked to the mass arrival of American troops in the Pacific in 1942, setting up bases to fight off the Japanese.
Gen. Yaakov Amidror said in an interview that Monday's exchange of fire could not be directly linked to the announcement of U.S. withdrawal of troops, whose role in Syria has been to fight Islamic State, not to deter Iran's advances.
Philippine troops are fighting militants linked to the Islamic State in the city of Marawi.
While Duterte was in Moscow, a series of deadly clashes erupted in Marawi between Filipino troops and Islamist fighters linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called ISIS).
