Japan orders ground troop pullout from Iraq

Japan orders ground troop pullout from Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit sample water with Iraqi staff at a water purifying plant near Samawah, southern Iraq, on June 20. Japan ordered the withdrawal of its ground troops from Iraq, ending their landmark two-and-a-half-year reconstruction aid mission there.

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