Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq
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Australia's top military commander  said on Wednesday the job of the country's combat troops in  southern Iraq was done, bolstering a government decision to  bring soldiers home mid-year.
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Australia wants to keep around 650 Australian troops in troubled East Timor even though the United Nations envisages a much smaller international force, the foreign minister said.
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A report claiming that specially trained Australian soldiers are taking part in US-led covert jobs in Iraq, including kidnapping, was "factually incorrect and misleading," the government said.
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The Ministry of Defence has given the country's more than 12,000 soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan social interaction guides to help them communicate with the local population, The Times reported on Monday.
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CANBERRA - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says all of the Australians in Iraq that the government is aware of, have been accounted for.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says members of a logistics team are heading to Iraq, in case any Australians have been taken hostage.
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Australia will not alter its commitment  to Iraq, the conservative government said on Monday, despite a  poll showing an overwhelming majority of Australians believe  the war has not reduced the threat of terrorism.
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AUSTRALIA had activated a contingency plan approved by Cabinet&#39;s National Security Committee after reports that two Australians had been taken hostage in Iraq, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Prime Minister John Howard scored a stunning victory in Australia's federal election Saturday in a vote ensuring the country keeps its troops in Iraq.    Labor Party leader Mark Latham conceded defeat in a speech to his supporters in western Sydney, saying he called Howard to congratulate him on his fourth straight election victory...
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SYDNEY -- Australian troops will stay in Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard declared yesterday, as the stock market in Sydney hit a record high following the conservative leader's election to a historic fourth term.
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Australia&#39;s election campaign is in its final stages, with the country&#39;s role in Iraq again a major talking point. Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he does not need to apologize for joining last
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Prime Minister John Howard hasdefended the size of Australia's troop deployment in Iraq after a stinging rebuke from White House hopeful Barack Obama, calling Canberra's contribution &quot;appropriate&quot;.
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The Australian government says it will provide any help it can to help secure the release of CARE Australia&#39;s leader in Iraq, Margaret Hassan.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday defended his government's decision to commit troops to the war in Iraq, saying given his time over again he would make the same decision.
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British troops still have "an important job to do" in Iraq, Prime minister Gordon Brown says.
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Prime Minister John Howard, fresh from winning an election mandate to keep Australian troops in Iraq as long as needed, said Monday he would keep his foreign minister and make the war on terror a top priority of his fourth term.
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All 225 Australians known to be in Iraq have been accounted for, Australia&#39;s foreign office has said, two days after an unconfirmed report that two citizens had been taken hostage and threatened with execution.