British troops return to southern Iraq after mission 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.
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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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U.S., British and Iraqi troops mounted raids Tuesday in a swath of territory south of Baghdad where armed insurgents have seized control of several cities and towns.
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Britain is to scale back its 8,000-strong military presence in southern Iraq in October, despite fears of worsening security in the run-up to elections.
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Black Watch troops have arrived at their new base south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence announced. The soldiers are relieving US forces who are expected to mount an all-out assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
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Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett has visited the restive southern Iraqi city of Basra, as the military announced it was sending 360 extra troops to protect reconstruction projects.
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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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Iraqi security forces are now capable of policing the entire south of their country without British help, senior defence and Foreign Office officials said yesterday
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The Black Watch regiment has returned to its base in Basra in southern Iraq after a month-long mission standing in for US troops in a more violent part of the country, the Ministry of Defence says.
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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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Iraqi forces are due to take control of a second province in the south of the country from UK and Italian troops.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visited British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Wednesday, just days after a battle group returned from a controversial deployment near Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD- Three newly redeployed British soldiers were killed in an attack south of Baghdad, as the Iraqi rebel city of Fallujah braced for an all-out assault after US President George W. Bushâs re-election.
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US, British and Iraqi forces are focusing this time on a hotbed south of the capital. BAGHDAD -- About 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents
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British troops will formally take a back seat to Iraqi forces in the southern province of Basra on Sunday with the handover of security responsibility to government troops.
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THE 850-strong Black Watch battle group has returned to the relative safety of its base in Basra, in the British-controlled southern area of Iraq.
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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.