British troops begin deployment
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Associated Press Television News footage showed large flatbed trucks carrying armored British vehicles up a road through Iraq's southern desert.
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Some 800 British forces, accompanied by US Marines, began making their way toward Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds.
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The British military said Wednesday that some 800 of its Black Watch troops have begun their deployment north toward Baghdad from their base in southern Iraq.
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British and Iraqi forces in Basra began Operation Sinbad, a several-month long attempt to restore security and rebuild the troubled southern port city, a British military spokesman said.
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The British Ministry of Defense confirmed on Sunday that the US has sent a request to the British government for redeployment of the British forces stationed in Iraq because the US troops stationed in Iraq are preparing for new military actions in Fallujah
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A further deployment of British troops to Afghanistan is to be ordered by the government, the BBC learns.
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A British battalion of 600 infantry have been told to make ready for deployment to Iraq, the Conservatives claimed today. The soldiers, understood to be from the 2nd
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Hundreds of British soldiers are preparing today to move to central Iraq to support US troops. An 850-strong group from the Black Watch will be deployed to the area
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Nearly 800 British troops have begun moving toward Baghdad, to take over operations for US troops who are moving into other areas of Iraq to fight insurgents.
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British troops in southern Iraq have begun redeploying to more volatile regions in central Iraq as requested by the United States.
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The bulk of an 850-strong group of British troops are gathering near their new base in a US-controlled area of Iraq. Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment will join up with the first wave of their colleagues
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Troops took up positions around Bangladesh on Sunday after the government ordered the deployment to ensure a peaceful run-up to elections next month.
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The Scots Guards are on stand-by to become the second British regiment to be deployed to areas of Iraq formerly occupied by the Americans.
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British troops began evacuating British nationals from the troubled West African nation of Ivory Coast Friday. Some 400 Britons live in the country, which has seen increasingly
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A battle group of British troops began to roll out of southern Iraq Wednesday on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad in a major political gamble for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered the military to prepare to deploy up to 3,000 soldiers to the conflict-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, the Independent on Sunday reports.
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Britain begins redeploying some 800 troops toward the restive area south of Baghdad area in a move aimed at freeing up US forces for an assault on insurgent areas north and west of the capital.