"We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve months," a Pentagon statement seen by Newsweek said.

Rutte also said "more and more" European nations were pre-positioning assets such as minehunters and minesweepers close to the Gulf to be ready for a "next phase".

The move is the most concrete announcement made so far by the US government to reduce its military presence in Europe, following months of ‌complaints from Washington that the region was not doing eno

Trump has ordered 5,000 troops out of Germany and threatened deeper cuts in Spain and Italy as NATO allies brace for a new era.

Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he’s ending Biden administration’s “unrelenting war” on American warriors.