Britain may send up to 1,300 extra troops to Iraq: report
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Britain may send up to 1,300 extra troops to Iraq to help stabilize the country before scheduled elections there in January, The Times newspaper reported.
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Britain will deploy 360 extra troops to Iraq later this year to reinforce its 7,200-strong force in the restive southern city of Basra, a military spokesman said.
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London is considering a request by Washington to redeploy a small number of British soldiers in Iraq to allow US forces carry out massive operations, the UK defense minister told parliament Monday.
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Britain is considering moving some of its troops in Iraq outside their normal area of operations in order to help bolster the American antiterrorist offensive, the British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said today.
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LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.Comment
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The US is considering sending more troops to Iraq in the run-up to January election, the Pentagon confirms.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Britain is prepared to  send more troops to Iraq if necessary to safeguard elections  planned for next year, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said on  Friday.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would withdraw almost a quarter of its troops from Iraq in coming months, just as thousands of additional U.S. soldiers were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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About 400 extra UK troops will be sent to Iraq ahead of the elections, announces the defence secretary.
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Britain will announce later whether it has agreed to a US request to send hundreds of its troops to relieve American forces in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman said, a move widely expected to go ahead.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.Comment
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LONDON  - Britain was due to announce Monday that it had received a US request to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq into restive, US-held areas, a move critics warned could be seen as a pre-election ploy to assist President George W. Bush.
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Britain will send an extra 1,400 troops to Afghanistan because most NATO allies have refused to send soldiers to battle a resurgent Taliban, Defense Secretary Des Browne said on Monday.
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Britain said it was considering a US request to move some of its troops in Iraq ( news - web sites ) from their base in the relatively peaceful south and into US-controlled areas, potentially placing them in ...
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LONDON - Britain may move some soldiers around inside Iraq, the UK defence minister said Monday, but denied the redeployment to more dangerous areas would be a show of support for US President George W. Bush.
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Britain plans to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, bolstering the 5,000 it already has there, British lawmakers said Friday.
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In contrast to the U.S. troop buildup, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today that Britain will withdraw up to 1,600 of its roughly 7,100 British troops in southern Iraq in the coming months.