June 1 (Reuters) - About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring the soldiers home this year. Australia is the latest of a number of countries to reduce their military presence in Iraq. The United States now has around 155,000 troops in Iraq, which will fall to 140,000 when the last of five extra brigades sent to Iraq last year, returns home in July. Here is a table, by country, of coalition forces in Iraq. United States 155,000 Britain 4,000 OTHER COUNTRIES: Georgia 2,000 South Korea 933 Australia 515 Poland 900 Romania 500 El Salvador 280 Azerbaijan 150 Bulgaria 150 Mongolia 100 Czech Republic 96 Albania 70 Denmark 55 Lithuania 53 Armenia 50 Estonia 38 Bosnia-Herzegovina 37 Macedonia 33 Kazakhstan 29 Moldova 11 Portugal 7 Latvia 3 Slovakia 2 Singapore 1 NOTE: Many figures are rounded or estimated at the end of April 2008. For main story please click on [nL01648857] Sources: Reuters/GlobalSecurity.org./Multi-National Force website/Washington Post (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (L) meets Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad May 31, 2008. Kouchner discussed investment projects to help rebuild Iraq on Saturday on a visit to the ...
