Black Watch troops on way home
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Black Watch troops are set to return over weekend - in time to hear the defence secretary's announcement on their future.
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The Black Watch battle group has been set back into its Basra base ahead of the soldiersâ anticipated return to the UK for Christmas.
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THE brave lads of the Black Watch yesterday began their treacherous journey north through Iraq. Scores of troops left their temporary home in Basra - one of Saddam Hussein&#39;s old palaces, now
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Defence chiefs have denied claims that another Scottish regiment is on standby to go to Iraq. The Black Watch are already there and are being redeployed into a US sector near Baghdad.
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Black Watch soldiers have come under attack within hours of moving into Iraqâs rebel-held badlands, although none was injured. Troops and vehicles were halted in the searing desert by a series of roadside
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By Jamie Lyons, Political Correspondent, and Kim Pilling, PA News. British troops from the Black Watch stopped overnight in Nasiriyah after they moved through desert towards Iraqâs âtriangle of deathâ.
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Troops from the Black Watch regiment have begun a major operation in central Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- British troops and armory rolled north from Basra yesterday to take over a deadly area near Baghdad and free up US troops for an expected attack on the rebel-held city of Fallujah.
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Story in full THE Black Watch could be pulled out of the "Sunni Triangle" within days now the US assault on Fallujah is at an end, it emerged yesterday.
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Three weeks ago, the talk was of family reunions, cold beer and Hogmanay parties as the soldiers of the Black Watch turned their thoughts to going home for Christmas.
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Some 200 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment arrived back in Britain after spending a month deployed in one of the most violent areas of Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised soldiers of the Black Watch they would be home for Christmas after their Iraq tour of duty - with ministers poised to agree a US request for them to replace American troops.
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A look at the Black Watch and Queen's Dragoon Guards, the British units being deployed to the U.S.-controlled sector of Iraq.
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Soldiers from the Black Watch battle group have been attacked at their base south of Baghdad for the third consecutive day. Six mortars were fired at the base, 25 km south of Baghdad, on Monday morning.
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Black Watch troops have spent their first day off the front line and are thinking ahead to Christmas at home. The troops returned to Basra after their controversial month-long mission to Camp Dogwood near the Sunni &quot;Triangle of Death&quot;.
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The 1st Battalion The Black Watch begins move north to take over operations from US troops in central Iraq.
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The 850-strong Black Watch battle group is back in Basra ahead of its anticipated return to the UK within days.