British troops quit Iraqi city of Basra
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, leaving the southern oil hub without British forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra overnight in a move that will end the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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British troops in Iraq will be confined to a single base at Basra airport from next month when they hand over their last remaining base in the city to Iraqi forces.
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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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British Lt. Col. James Cowan said the troops left the southern city of Basra to head for a base in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
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Some 250 British soldiers will be withdrawn from Iraq over the next four weeks as part of a plan to reduce troop levels by 500 to 5,000, the defence ministry said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD: Hundreds of British soldiers left southern Iraq on a risky mission closer to Baghdad on Wednesday to free up US forces for a possible assault on rebel-held Fallujah, as Tokyo stood firm after militants threatened to behead a Japanese hostage.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops withdrew Saturday from radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's main office in the southern city of Basra, a day after occupying the building and seizing an arms cache in fighting that killed three and wounded five, the British military and police said.
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A battle group of British troops rolled out of southern Iraq on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad, in a major political gamble for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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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.
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British Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington Regiment, move toward the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, during clashes with armed gunmen.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday night in another step towards handing over the province to Iraqi control and paving the way for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed 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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The 550 UK troops based in Basra have begun their pull-out from their base at Basra Palace.
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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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A battle group of British troops began to roll out of southern Iraq Wednesday on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad in a major political gamble for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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The commander of British troops in southern Iraq has revealed Saturday details of how they would pull out of the city of Basra and leave the way clear for Iraqi units to take control.