Hoon visiting UK troops in Basra
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is visiting British troops in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says.
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visited his country&#39;s troops in Iraq today and said he saw no reason to delay next month&#39;s elections as preparations are on track.
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Britain welcomed Tuesday an announcement that Iraqi forces will take over the southern province of Basra, currently under the security control of around 5,200 British troops, in mid-December.
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has arrived in India from Pakistan for talks with the defence and foreign ministers, British officials said.
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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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British soldiers are feared injured after a "hostile incident" in the Iraqi city of Basra.
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Defense Minister Geoff Hoon will make a statement to the House of Commons on Monday about British troop deployments in Iraq, amid reports that Britain is considering sending some 600 soldiers to bolster US operations near Baghdad.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise dawn visit to US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as investigators probed a devastating suicide attack on a US army base.
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Britain has received a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in the southern city of Basra into restive US-held areas but is still considering a response, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told parliament.
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A British reconnaissance team is set to visit the area around Baghdad where the US military has asked for back-up from UK forces. It is thought about 650 troops could be moved to within 20 miles of the Iraqi
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Defence Minister Geoff Hoon is due to address the British parliament on his country's troop deployment in Iraq, amid widespread reports that some forces are to be moved from the relative calm of southern Iraq into areas around Baghdad, thereby freeing up US forces for attacks on cities like Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad Sunday on an unannounced visit and said his country's troops will remain in Iraq "until the job is done."
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Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said Monday he was considering a request from Washington to redeploy a small number of British troops into the US-controlled sector in Iraq.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British forces have clashed with fighters loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra for a second day, trading gunfire in the streets for about 90 minutes, witnesses say.
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops withdrew on 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.    Explosions and gunfire again echoed across the city Saturday before the soldiers withdrew from the offices in the city center and handed over the keys to local authorities, said British military spokesman Capt...
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was visiting British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, just days after a battle group returned from a controversial deployment near Baghdad.
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LONDON - Hundreds of British troops returned to their base in southern Iraq yesterday, ending a monthlong deployment requested by the United States for an offensive in a restive region near Baghdad.