Sentence examples for troop agreement from inspiring English sources

"Maybe he was justified personally" in opposing the troop agreement, said Davood Moradian, the founding director of a Kabul-based think tank, the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies.

That, however, is precisely what they did this week when Iraq's government approved a troop-withdrawal agreement which the government of Nuri al-Maliki had spent a year squeezing out of its reluctant American interlocutors.The agreement under discussion stipulates that American troops will withdraw into their bases by the middle of next year and leave Iraq altogether by the end of 2011.

Ethiopia's presence in Somalia formally ended in early 2009, when it pulled its troops under an agreement between the transitional Somali government and moderate Islamists.

The agreement on troop disengagement bet.

Even with a deadly car bombing and other mayhem marring the day — the deadline for the American troop pullback under an agreement that took effect Jan . 1— Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki seized on the occasion to position himself as a proud leader of a country independent at last, looking ahead to the next milestone of parliamentary elections in January.

Its Status of Forces Agreement grants troops immunity from civil and criminal courts.

Under that agreement, U.S. troops were scheduled to leave the cities and towns by mid-2009, and withdrawal from the country was set to be completed in early 2012.

Under the security agreement, American troops can act, but only in self-defense — usually, firing back when fired upon — and are barred from operations against militant networks based on intelligence.

While the closing of Rhein-Main comes at a time when the Pentagon is scaling back troops in Germany, the agreement to hand over the base predates that redeployment.

Ending a decade of negotiations on the placement of American troops within Japan, the agreement seeks to remove a severe irritant in relations by reducing American military personnel on Okinawa, where residents complain of noise and crime.

The withdrawal from Saudi Arabia comes at a time when the Pentagon is reassessing troop levels and basing agreements around the globe, but especially in Europe, the Persian Gulf and the Korean Peninsula.