Japan to pull ground troops from Iraq, expand airlift aid to Baghdad

Japan to pull ground troops from Iraq, expand airlift aid to Baghdad

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga speaks at a press conference at his agency on June 19 following a Cabinet decision to pull Japan's ground troops from southern Iraq. He said, ''I am very glad that over the past two-and-a-half years, a total of 5,500 GSDF members were able to carry out safe and sound their mission to help reconstruct Iraq.''

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