Troops withdraw from Basra base
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Saddam Hussein's palace is the only British base in Basra after troops withdraw from police headquarters.
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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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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The drawdown of British troops in Basra is a sign of a new Prime Minister's priorities
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Britain was prepared to withdraw its forces from the southern Iraqi city of Basra in April, but held off for five months after the United States asked it to stay, Britain&#39;s military commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Monday.
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News reports in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation forces withdrew today at dawn from Beit Lahia town and Jabalia camp, three days after their incursion in the two area, situated to the north of Gaza.
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The final British troops withdrew Monday from the South Armagh borderland of Northern Ireland, ending a 37-year mission to keep watch over the Irish Republican Army's most dangerous power base.
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British forces formally handed over responsibility for Basra province Sunday, the last region in Iraq under their control.
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra last night in another step toward handing over the province to Iraqi control and preparing for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops withdrew 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.
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Britain will reduce its contingent of just over 7,000 troops in Iraq by almost half in May as it hands the main province of Basra over to Iraqi army and security forces, a newspaper reported.
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Britain announced on Wednesday the withdrawal of almost one quarter of its troops from Iraq in coming months, just as thousands of additional U.S. soldiers were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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JAMMU, India, Nov. 20 -- India pulled about 3,000 troops out of Kashmir Saturday in a planned withdrawal of army units from the disputed region, Indian officials said.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed a suggestion that a withdrawal by UK troops from their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was a defeat, insisting it was an "organized" move.
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A battalion of Indian Army soldiers has pulled out of Kashmir&#39;s summer capital Srinagar, marking the first withdrawal from the urban hub of insurgency in the Himalayan state.
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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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Over two thirds of Britons believe that the Iraq war is being lost, according to a poll released Monday as British troops withdrew from Basra city centre.