Britain to cut thousands of troops in Iraq next year
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Britain said it expected to withdraw thousands of its 7,100 troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, in the clearest pledge yet of a pullout from a country gripped by growing sectarian violence.
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Britain is to send an additional 400 troops to Iraq ahead of the country's January 30 elections, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced.
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Britain will withdraw around 1,600 troops from Iraq in the coming months and aims to further cut its 7,100-strong contingent by late summer if Iraqi forces can secure the country's south, Prime Minister Tony ...Comment
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Despite a sensitive political climate, Britain&#39;s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has announced that hundreds of British soldiers will be redeployed in Iraq in response to a US request.
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Britain will withdraw its remaining 600 troops from Bosnia after a 15-year peacekeeping mission in the region, Defense Minister Adam Ingram said Thursday.
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British troops may be gone from Iraq by   the end of 2007 as local security forces assume greater   responsibility, President Jalal Talabani said on Tuesday, but   Britain's foreign minister stressed no timetable had been set.
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LONDON, Feb. 21 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Wednesday that 1,600 British troops would return home from Iraq in the coming months and that a further 500 soldiers may be withdrawn by the end of summer.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to withdraw nearly half of Britain's troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, British media reported early Wednesday.
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Britain put Iraqis in command of the main Iraqi army unit in Basra on Tuesday, a move billed as paving the way for Washington's main ally to formally announce major cutbacks in troops.
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President George W. Bush plans to withdraw 5,700 troops from Iraq by December and has accepted recommendations on force numbers by the top U.S. commander and diplomat in Iraq, a senior administration official said on Thursday.
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The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month despite the deteriorating security situation in much of the country, The Observer has learnt.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to announce on Wednesday that his country will begin withdrawing thousands of troops from Iraq within weeks, according to media reports.
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LONDON -- Britain's decision to pull 1,600 troops out of Iraq by spring, touted by US and British leaders as a turning point in Iraqi sovereignty, was widely seen yesterday as a telling admission that the British military can no longer sustain simultaneous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Britain will announce later whether it has agreed to a US request to send hundreds of its troops to relieve American forces in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman said, a move widely expected to go ahead.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  announced on Wednesday the start of the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, British media said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday that thousands of his country's troops are to begin withdrawing from Iraq in weeks, media reports said.