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FACTBOX-Foreign military forces in Iraq
16 Dec 2008 17:36:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec 16 (Reuters) - Bosnia withdrew troops from Iraq this week, ending the deployment of its armed forces there after three years, while members of the Albanian and Moldovan armies will formally end their deployments on Thursday.

Many other nations' troops have also left the country as violence declines and before the expiry at the end of the year of a U.N. mandate covering the presence of foreign troops.

Here is a table, by country, of the remaining coalition forces in Iraq.

United States 143,000

Britain 4,100

OTHER COUNTRIES:

Romania 600

Australia 300

El Salvador 200

Bulgaria 155

Denmark 55

Lithuania 53

Estonia 38


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The wreckage of a vehicle used in a bomb attack lies on a road in Baghdad December 16, 2008. A car bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Tuesday targeting a convoy ...



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