Security guards killed in Baghdad were ex-Gurkhas: Britain
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Four employees of a British security firm killed in an attack in Baghdad were Nepalese nationals who formerly served with Britain's elite Gurkha army regiment, the Foreign Office revealed.
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LONDON: Britain has announced that Gurkhas who served in its army would be able to apply for settlement and British citizenship on completion of their service.
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London (IANS) British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has announced a review of the rights of Gurkhas serving in the British armed forces.
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Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carryin Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad on Saturday, killing six people, police said. The group had just left a national guard recruiting center
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Erinys guards accused of causing death in Iraq as authorities close down UK contractors in Afghanistan.
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Three British soldiers who had recently been deployed to provide cover for US troops in Iraq have been killed in an attack, according to the government.
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Fifteen Afghan security guards were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan Tuesday, police said, as two police and several Taliban rebels died in other clashes across the country.
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Three rebels, a policeman and a security guard were killed in Sri Lanka's restive eastern province as Britain's junior foreign minister Kim Howells toured projects in the area funded by the former colonial power.
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London - Three British soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Iraq were named on Friday, as Prime Minister Tony Blair faced mounting criticism for sending them into a dangerous United States-run sector of the country.
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The commander of a British regiment that lost three soldiers in a suicide attack near Baghdad had expressed security concerns before his unit was redeployed to aid U.S. forces, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Two British soldiers died near the southern Iraqi city of Basra after their convoy was ambushed, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defence.
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Execution-style killings have fallen sharply in Baghdad since the security crackdown began this month, the No. 2 U.S. commander said Tuesday.
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And later on Sunday, gunmen killed two National Guards and wounded four others in an attack near Latifiya, a town south of Baghdad that has seen persistent unrest, officials said.
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Britain&#39;s Black Watch regiment has completed its mission in Baghdad and on Saturday returned to Basra where the troops will prepare to return home within the next week.
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A 24-year-old armed security guard from Gloucestershire is killed while protecting engineers in Iraq.
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"After reaching Britain I will request British friends and the public to grant all Gurkhas equal rights"  KATHMANDU: A Nepali Gurkha who won Britain's highest military honour left Kathmandu for Britain on Tuesday after British officials reversed a decision and allowed him to settle in the country. via Daily Times
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¡¡ LONDON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- One British soldier has been killedand another injured when British troops fought gunbattles with Iraqi militiamen in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.