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BAGHDAD : Roadside bombs wounded six national guards north of Baghdad as Iraq&#39;s security forces struggled to recover from a twin suicide car bombing that ripped through their ranks, killing 20.
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The US government has welcomed Britain&#39;s decision to send 850 Black Watch soldiers closer to Baghdad. The troops from the Black Watch are preparing today to move from Basra to an area south west of Baghdad to support US troops.
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British Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington Regiment, walk in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 during clashes with armed gunmen.
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LONDON -- Political opponents of Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a renewed attack on his handling of the Iraq conflict yesterday, as British soldiers prepared to move deeper into the country to support US troops.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops are arriving there to try to restore order in 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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The second Iraq war, between coalition forces and insurgents, is now under way in what has become the &quot;crucible&quot; of the global war on terrorism, Tony Blair declared yesterday
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The Iraq war entered a dangerous new phase today as 850 armoured British troops were ordered to the troubled heart of the country for a massive crackdown on terrorists.
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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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The long-awaited Baghdad security operation has begun, the top United States military spokesman in Iraq said today.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq American forces across Iraq are being repositioned to prepare for an assault on insurgents and for elections early next year.
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The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month despite the deteriorating security situation in much of the country, The Observer has learnt.
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Soldiers in Britain&#39;s Black Watch battalion are preparing to move to central Iraq after a United States request for assistance, the BBC reported Sunday.
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NAJAF, Iraq Checkpoints and other beefed-up security measures are in place as families of the latest car-bomb victims prepare for funerals in Najaf (NAH&#39;-jahf) and Karbala (KAHR&#39;-bah-lah).
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Soldiers from the Iraqi National Guard show off mortars after militia members delivered sacks of the rounds to Iraqi security forces in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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Soldiers from the Black Watch are preparing to target criminal and terrorist gangs as they settle into the regiment&#39;s latest base in a US-controlled area of Iraq.
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As targets of resistors in Iraq, Iraqi security forces are preempting possible attacks by shooting at civilian cars. Yesterday, in Havsa, a town 40 km away from Baghdad, Iraqi policemen arrived at the scene