Britain stresses it is 'on the same page' as US after Iraq withdrawal
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Britain stressed it was &quot;on the same page&quot; as Washington after the government announced its first large-scale troop withdrawal since the onset of the Iraq war, while the United States ramped up its presence there.
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The handover of the oil-rich province of Basra by the British military to Iraqi forces will not diminish Britain's role in Iraq, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday.
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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  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 agreed with Iraq&#039;s new leadership Monday that Iraqi security forces would start assuming full responsibility for some provinces and cities next month, beginning a process leading to the eventual withdrawal of all coalition forces.
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Gordon Brown rejects claims of any split between UK and US policy on Iraq, saying both are on the "same path".
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that British troops would only be redeployed to the more volatile, US-controlled sector of Iraq if it was militarily justified.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain will transfer responsibility for security in Basra province to Iraqi forces on Sunday, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of the southern part of Iraq.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed over security to Iraqi forces on Sunday in the last of four provinces it once patrolled, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq.
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Britain and the United States will send a team to Iraq to reassess security in the face of spiraling violence, Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a televised interview Sunday.
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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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LONDON -- Responding to a US request, Britain agreed yesterday to transfer 850 troops from relatively calm southern Iraq into a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency near Baghdad.
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New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally.
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LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair is talking security with his counterpart from 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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LONDON -- Britain has agreed to a US request to redeploy British troops from southern Iraq to an area closer to Baghdad. The british defence secretary made the announcement in the House of Commons.