As the soldiers entered the gymnasium, the crowd of family members and friends hollered with glee. Flashbulbs popped and signs were waved. With the shout of a single word — “Dismissed!” — the crowd rushed toward the soldiers. Then there were many hugs and kisses, as well as a few tears.
In the creeping heat of the Iraqi spring, war-weary residents of the capital are looking uncertainly to the future amid a spate of bombings, including at least two car bomb explosions Monday that appeared to target the minister of oil in Baghdad's Rusafa district.
Two Chinese fishing vessels came "within yards" of a U.S. surveillance ship operating roughly 170 miles off the coast of China in the Yellow Sea on Friday, only relenting when the Americans called a nearby Chinese military ship for help.
Despite a brief mutiny Tuesday involving a Georgian tank battalion 20 miles from the nation's capital, NATO troops will move forward with a monthlong training mission near Tbilisi, marking the first significant exercise in the country since its five-day war with Russia last year.
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