British soldiers held over munitions theft: ministry
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Three soldiers serving with a Scottish regiment were arrested in Canterbury, on suspicion of stealing and supplying munitions, the defence ministry said Monday.
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British forces uncover a large cache of weapons in a "significant blow" to insurgency in southern Iraq.
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Police in central England arrested eight people in a major security swoop on Wednesday which a defense source said involved a plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.
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Three British nationals were nabbed by gunmen in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The three British men were believed to be civilians living
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Britain is urgently checking reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
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The ministry of defence dispatched 22,000 rounds of faulty ammunition for use in Afghanistan, at one point leading a platoon of paratroopers to refuse to go on patrol, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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British ministers defended their decision on Friday to deploy Black Watch soldiers from Basra to the south of Baghdad. The death of three British soldiers in a suicide attack threatens
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LONDON, Sept. 24 -- A newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that British soldiers had smuggled stolen guns out of Iraq and exchanged them on the black market for cocaine.
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A pipe bomb and other weapons were confiscated from the home of an Army recruit charged in a federal indictment with helping a fugitive pair of convicted New Hampshire tax evaders, police said Thursday.
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By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent and George Jones, Political Editor. Ministers were accused last night of misleading Parliament over the redeployment of British troops in Iraq to an American-controlled area.
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UK soldiers fighting in Afghanistan had to borrow rounds from allied forces, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
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Government troops arrested about 100 people in a search for militants suspected of taking oil industry workers hostage in Nigeria's petroleum-rich south, the army said Saturday.
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing a threat to national security, Afghan officials said.
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An armed group claimed in a video Thursday to have obtained a large amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot facility in Iraq and threatened to use them against foreign troops.
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British and Danish troops arrest one person suspected of being involved in shootings and bombings in southern Iraq.
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Two foreign civilians, at least one of them British, have been arrested in Baghdad after a gunfight in which one of the Iraqi interior minister&#39;s bodyguards was killed, a senior police source has told Reuters.