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US cancels deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland

Le Monde (English) · May 15, 2026, 4:45 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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The US canceled the plan to deploy the troops two weeks after the Pentagon said it would pull 5,000 US troops from Germany, amid a dispute between Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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