But, apparently bereft of political ideas, a panicked government is rushing fresh troops to the region.
The need to find fresh troops to help stabilise the country, and non-American ones in particular, is pressing.
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Kagan rejects the position of lawmakers and some military commanders that the U.S. simply doesn't have fresh troops available.
The Pentagon has been under pressure to put together a plan to inject fresh troops into Iraq to relieve tired and demoralized service members, who have been facing almost daily attacks since President Bush announced the end of major combat May 1.
But the arrival of fresh Indonesian troops, who might be less tainted by East Timor's past, seemed only to make the violence worse.
Edward Kennedy, to require Bush to seek fresh authorization to send additional troops to Iraq.
Fresh clashes between the rebel troops and security forces loyal to Libyan leader Gaddafi erupted on Sunday on the outskirts of Tripoli.
On Friday morning, India's army said there had been a fresh exchange of fire with Pakistani troops but no casualties were reported.
With about 10, 000 Sudanese troops massing for a fresh offensive against rebel groups, Mr al-Bashir is evidently counting on a brutal but definitive military solution to the three-year old conflict, in which 300, 000 people may have already been killed and 2m made homeless.
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It was a time of jarring social and political turmoil in America: the pain of the civil rights movement still fresh, U.S. troops finally home from an unpopular war in Vietnam, a scandal known as Watergate on the verge of toppling the most powerful man in the free world.
If successful, Marjah will be a model for future operations that are to unfold as thousands of fresh U.S. and European troops arrive in the coming months to take part in the latest surge of allied forces into Afghanistan.
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The UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported fresh violence overnight into Sunday, saying that troops had bombarded rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus, including in Beit Saham, near the airport road.
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Though it opposed any military action by outsiders, it eventually had to sanction the intervention by Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, all of which had sent troops to Congo to save Mr Kabila from fresh rebels supported, in their turn, by Rwanda and Uganda.
All available milk was needed fresh for the people, or dried and condensed for the troops.
Activists said at least 20 rebels and a civilian, and an unconfirmed number of troops, were killed in air strikes and in fresh fighting there.
After launching a fresh rebellion in the east last year, the Rwandans flew thousands of troops and rebels across Congo to attack the capital, Kinshasa.
Now, the Lebanese government's making a fresh move to secure peace -an offer to dispatch 15, 000 army troops to South Lebanon, along with U.N. sponsored forces, so long as Israeli forces withdraw.
The Pakistani Taleban, even while continuing their penetration of central Pakistan, are also mobilising fresh recruits from all over the country to go help their Afghan Taleban brothers resist the newly arriving Western troops.
So with the current session due officially to end on December 9th and fresh assembly elections scheduled for April 2004, bills dealing with issues ranging from next year's budget to troops for Iraq have been in limbo.
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