Despite the end of the Iraq war and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, top military leaders staunchly defend plans to boost the drone fleet in order to meet intelligence, surveillance and targeting needs of U.S. commanders in other hot spots, including the Pacific, Africa, and South America.
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Ever since the end of the Iraq war, political Washington has talked about little else.
The UK has spent almost half a billion pounds on such firms since the end of the Iraq war in 2003.
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The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party have been in control in much of northern Iraq since the end of that war.
Iraqi government forces attacked the town near the Iranian border after it was taken over by Kurdish rebels towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Originally founded as the construction and engineering branch of the IRGC at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Ghorb initially focused on reconstruction, but it soon ventured into other fields.
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American and Chinese demand is part of the reason why the oil price has remained so high for so long after the end of the war in Iraq (see chart).
Since the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Iran decided not to develop a conventional force structure, but to focus instead on missile capacity to harass its neighbors and naval capacity to be able to cause problems in the Persian Gulf.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve did his best to promote the good news: he drew attention to the benefits of lower oil prices, the end of the war in Iraq and what he called the continuing solid gains from productivity growth.
Some 240, 000 young vets were out of work in September 2011 alone, and with the Iraq War set to end in two months, a surge of troops will be returning home.
In December, Jordan said, he met with Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to ask permission for CNN to send journalists into areas of northern Iraq that had been under Kurdish control since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
After all, a growing number of Americans seem to be under the illusion that, as with Vietnam, we can end the war simply by bailing out of Iraq.
Last month, I announced that, as promised, we will end the war in Iraq by the end of the year.
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We have not been focused on it sufficiently over the course of the last decade and so that, as we end the wars in Iraq and wind down the war in Afghanistan, we are redirecting a lot of our diplomatic attention to the Asia-Pacific.
With the Iraq War set to end soon and the Afghanistan War entering its second decade following the death of Osama bin Laden, this may be the biggest and most important Veterans Day for our community ever.
The President will speak about the enormous sacrifices and achievements of the brave Americans who served in the Iraq war, and he will speak about the extraordinary milestone of bringing the war in Iraq to an end.
In Ankara, Ms Hughes met a group of Turkish women who demanded an end to the war in Iraq.
The economic aid to Iraq started in 1983, and by the end of the war amounted to more than a billion dollars.
The much-debated Iraq war funding issue should be settled by the end of the week, as the Senate passed the measure just hours after the House vote.
And obviously, internationally we kept one of the first promises I made as President of the United States and that was to end the war in Iraq in a responsible way.
On the issue of Iraq, Clinton was asked if she is looking to end the war or win it.
Some have pointed out that this reversal is partly because troops have pulled out of Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan is nearing its end.
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Mark Dearden, a naval surgeon who served two tours in Iraq, says members of Congress would move faster to end the war if their relatives were there.
All seven of the major Democratic presidential candidates say they want to end the war in Iraq.
There are flashpoints on the periphery (an Iran or Iraq gathering weapons of mass destruction), but the end of the cold war has made the Arab-Israeli conflict far less likely to cause a big explosion in world affairs.
Northern Iraq had been outside Baghdad's control since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
I've also said that we are going to end the Iraq war, which is going to save us money during that period of time. (Applause.) We are going to have to reform Medicare, and that's part of the overall health care reform that we were talking about earlier.
America's position is that since Iraq is in clear breach of the council's ceasefire resolution at the end of the Gulf war, no further measures are needed.
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