Daily Memo: CSTO to Withdraw From Kazakhstan, North Korea Launches Missile

Foreign peacekeepers are expected to leave Kazakhstan within 10 days.

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Troop withdrawal. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization’s peacekeeping mission, launched last week amid escalating unrest in the country, was completed and that troops would begin to pull out on Jan. 13. The withdrawal is expected to take no more than 10 days. The United States and European Union […]

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