Iraq call-ups sap manpower back home
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Deployed National Guard and Reserve members cause staffing holes from firehouse to the classroom.
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More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in restive Anbar province &#151; a focal point of the Sunni Arab insurgency &#151; in the most successful recruiting drive by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be deployed to Iraq, the government has announced.
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THE US military is raising troop levels in Iraq to nearly 142,000 ahead of January elections, delaying the return home of a seasoned combat brigade and keeping in place another division&#39;s headquarters staff.
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Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from exposure to explosions
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Iraqi officials say the first more than 200,000 residents who fled fighting in Falluja are to begin returning home.
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New statistics provided by Iraqi officials appear to mirror the geographic pattern of the American troop increase.
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Some 400 extra British troops were due to arrive at their base in Iraq at the weekend to bolster security in the runup to the January 30 elections, the defense ministry said.
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US forces in Iraq are being bolstered to their highest-ever level in the run-up to next month's election.
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The US military will temporarily boost its troop strength in Iraq to about 150,000 from a current level of 138,000 to provide extra security for Iraqi elections set for Jan.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of at least 49 soldiers of the new Iraq Army were ambushed and killed while on their way home after graduating from training, a US military official said.
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Some 850 British troops have started preparations to redeploy from southern Iraq to an area outside of Baghdad. The move comes after Britain agreed to a US request for help and is designed to make more US
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After nearly seven months rigging convoys for runs through the desert around this remote base in western Iraq, Lance Cpl. Bobby Elsworth was hoping that returning to his home camp in southern Japan would mean an easier life.
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Hundreds of British troops returned to their base in southern Iraq Saturday, ending a monthlong deployment in a restive region near Baghdad that the United States had requested to help back up U.S. forces in ...
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A British regiment of 850 soldiers deployed to back up US forces outside Baghdad since the end of October has returned to its base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the defense ministry said.
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It was a week ago that it was first disclosed that soldiers from the Black Watch regiment had been told to prepare to deploy to an area south of Baghdad to help out the Americans planning a fresh assault on Falluja.
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The British Ministry of Defense saidSaturday that the Black Watch regiment has completed its mission standing in for US troops in central Iraq and returned to its basein the southern Basra area.