Last Aussie Combat Troops Home From Iraq
June 22, 2008

(CBS/AP) Eighty members of Australia's Overwatch Battle Group - the last of that nation's troops serving in combat roles in southern Iraq - returned home yesterday, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring home all of Australia's combat troops from that Iraq.

Family and friends cheered the "Diggers" at Brisbane Airport.

About 300 Australian troops remain in Iraq in non-combat roles.

The Aussies were based in southern provinces of al-Muthanna and Dhi Qar, which were the first to transfer control to Iraqi security forces.

U.S. troops now provide backup security for the Iraqis in that region. [Read More!]