Sentence examples for remaining combat from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama has said he would remove the remaining combat brigades at the rate of one or two a month over a 16-month period.

The negotiations, which could take months, should not be an excuse to drag out a decision on the pace of withdrawing the remaining combat troops.

Withdrawals should then accelerate, as the division of power and resources is cemented locally across Iraq, with half the remaining combat forces and their associated support withdrawn in each of the following two years.

Obama's plan, which was formally laid out last September, called for the remaining combat brigades to be pulled out at a brisk pace of about one per month, along with a strategic shift of resources and attention away from Iraq and toward Afghanistan.

For the UK's part, the coalition government has sought to narrow the scale of its stated ambitions for Afghanistan as it promised to withdraw British combat troops by the end of 2014, along with the rest of NATO's remaining combat forces.

With only the 2nd Battalion of Task Force Wilson remaining combat effective on the morning of November 27, Wilson ordered the task force to withdraw to Ipsok.

On top of that, the region is evolving rapidly as the US and other remaining international combat troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of this year.

General Odierno initially favored withdrawing just 2 of the remaining 14 combat brigades by summer or fall, and military planners drew up a faster option only in recent weeks, on the assumption Mr. Obama would ask for it.

Iraq's state election commission said Thursday that it could take up to three weeks to complete a partial recount of votes from last month's parliamentary election, a time frame that extends the country's political uncertainty and makes it very unlikely that a new government will be seated by the end of August, when the remaining American combat troops are scheduled to withdraw from the country.

Female soldiers of Karakal had a high rate of attrition, with only seventy two percent remaining as combat soldiers throughout their three years of military service.

Rudolph Blanco Davila, who was born in El Paso and grew up in Los Angeles, remained in combat until late 1944 when shrapnel from a tank round tore into his chest and right shoulder during combat in France.