Dec 17 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday British troops would leave Iraq in 2009. His fourth trip to Iraq as prime minister came a day after the Iraqi cabinet drafted a law covering the temporary presence in Iraq of troops from Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia, El Salvador and NATO, once a U.N. mandate expires next year. The law must be ratified by parliament. Bosnia also withdrew its troops this week and the Albanian and Moldovan forces will end their deployments on Thursday. Here is a table of the remaining coalition forces in Iraq. United States 143,000 Britain 4,100 Romania 600 Australia 300 El Salvador 200 Bulgaria 155 Denmark 55 Lithuania 53 Estonia 38
A resident sits next to his brother, who was wounded in a bomb attack, in a hospital in Baghdad December 17, 2008. Twin bomb blasts killed 18 people and wounded 53 ...
