Britain admits forces stretched as troops die in Iraq, Afghanistan
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Britain's new army chief has warned that the country's military forces are stretched to the very limit, as three soldiers died in a grim day for Britons on the frontline in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The British-led NATO force in southern Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would withdraw almost a quarter of its troops from Iraq in coming months when thousands of additional U.S. soldiers will arrive to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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Britain plans to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, bolstering the 5,000 it already has there, British lawmakers said Friday.
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Britain will send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban, media said Friday, only days after the government announced a major reduction in forces in Iraq.
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Britain said on Thursday its troops will stay in Iraq for as long as required by the Iraqi authorities, denying a newspaper report that it was urging Washington to give a provisional timetable for a pull-out.
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There are too few British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do not have all the equipment they need, increasing the risk they may fail in their missions there, a parliamentary committee report due out Wednesday will warn, The Guardian said.
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Two British soldiers serving in the NATO force in southern Afghanistan were killed while another was seriously wounded and a fourth reported missing, presumed killed, the ministry of defense said.
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A British soldier has been killed and three injured in fighting in Afghanistan, a spokesman for Britain's ministry of defence (MoD) said.
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British troops leave the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Thursday, Oct 21, 2004. Britain said Thursday a battalion of British troops would be redeployed into volatile central Iraq, meeting a US request despite
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Britain is to scale back its 8,000-strong military presence in southern Iraq in October, despite fears of worsening security in the run-up to elections, the Observer newspaper reports.
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The number of British troops in Iraq could be increased if needed, Tony Blair says - a day after announcing the withdrawal of 1,600.
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Â· Defence memo leak says virtually no reserves left Â· 'Intense tempo of life' due to Iraq and Afghan fighting
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Two British soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would withdraw almost a 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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday that British troops died when a British military transport plane crashed north of Baghdad in Iraq.
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LONDON - Three British soldiers in the Black Watch regiment, the forces moved closer to the Iraqi capital to back up American troops, have been killed in an attack, the government said Thursday.