Remaining U.S. Soldiers to Vacate Tuzla Area
The United States will pull its last 150 soldiers out of Bosnia-Herzegovina by December, a U.S. general said.
The troops of Eagle Base near Tuzla are all that remains of the 38,000-member force that deployed as part of a NATO-led peace mission in late 1995. A European Union force of about 6,000 assumed peacekeeping duties two years ago.
The United States has about 1,600 troops stationed close by in Serbia’s U.N.-run province of Kosovo. About 100 mostly U.S. intelligence officers will remain in Bosnia attached to NATO headquarters in Sarajevo, the capital.
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