British forces continue Basra fighting
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BASRA, Iraq  - British forces have clashed with fighters loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra for a second day, trading gunfire in the streets for about 90 minutes, witnesses say.
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Clashes erupted between British troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Iraq's southern city of Basra, wounding one British soldier, sources on both sides said.
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BASRA CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE, Iraq The British soldiers spent more than an hour drilling the Iraqi army recruits in how to use key equipment needed to defend Basra from deadly mobs: body-size shields and menacing red batons.
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops withdrew on Saturday from radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's main office in the southern city of Basra a day after occupying the building and seizing an arms cache in fighting that killed three and wounded five, the British military and police said.    Explosions and gunfire again echoed across the city Saturday before the soldiers withdrew from the offices in the city center and handed over the keys to local authorities, said British military spokesman Capt...
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BASRA, Iraq The British defense secretary is in southeastern Iraq today, meeting with troops in Basra. Geoff Hoon also will meet with Iraqi and British officials during his one- day visit.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday night in another step towards handing over the province to Iraqi control and paving the way for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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Britain will deploy 360 extra troops to Iraq later this year to reinforce its 7,200-strong force in the restive southern city of Basra.
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15 November 2004 -- Fighting flared today between insurgents and US and Iraqi forces in the city of Ba&#39;qubah as coalition troops moved against remaining pockets of resistance in Al-Fallujah.
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Insurgents in Iraq ambushed a British military convoy in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the British army in Iraq said.
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A British soldier has been killed and another seriously injured in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of Defence has revealed.
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A reconnaissance team has studied the prospects for British troops moving north from their relatively calm base. Until now, the British were concentrated in Basra.
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American, British and Iraqi troops are continuing their effort to root out insurgents south of Baghdad, in an operation aimed at clearing the way for elections to be held in January.
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BAGHDAD, May 26 -- U.S. and British troops battled Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra on Friday and Saturday, killing about a dozen fighters shortly after the influential Shiite cleric demanded a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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INSURGENTS in Iraq are continuing to pursue their deadly campaign against US troops and Iraqi security forces. Suicide car bombers struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in
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23 August 2004 -- Fighting continued today in the Iraqi city of Al-Najaf between US and Iraqi government forces and supporters of radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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BASRA, Iraq  - As British forces prepare to pull out of their last base inside Basra, Iraq's security forces face their biggest test yet -- stopping the country's oil centre from becoming a battleground for rival Shi'ite militias.
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A British regiment of 850 soldiers deployed to back up US forces outside Baghdad since the end of October has returned to its base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.