US to pull out 9,000 Marines from Japan
The United States said Friday it would pull 9,000 Marines out of Japan as it seeks to ease a long-running standoff over the future of its huge military presence in one of its top Asian allies.
The US will pull 12,000 troops from Iraq over the next six months as part of the Obama administration's promised withdrawal of all combat forces by August next year, military chiefs announced yesterday, The Guardian reports.