1.   Fuels, cleaning fluids, lubricants and other chemicals are leaching into groundwater, and unexploded shells linger on testing grounds long after U.S. soldiers leave.

2.   Residents wondered what armed group would return once the soldiers leave, and how those scarred by the violence will heal.

3.   Whenever more American soldiers leave, the Japanese see it as more good news.

4.   Huge convoys of the Yugoslav military crowd roads as they withdraw from the province, and rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army grow bolder as the soldiers leave.

5.   The international troops in Afghanistan are also training an Afghan army to provide security in the country after the foreign soldiers leave.

6.   US marines will come ashore in the final stages as the last soldiers leave, he said.