Hoon meets soldiers and officials in flying visit to Iraq
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BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today for talks with Iraqi and British officials.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in northern Iraq for talks with Kurdish political leaders.
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Â· PM-in-waiting will study lessons of Iraq invasionÂ· Chancellor arrives in Basra and Baghdad for talks
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Britain&#39;s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrives at Parliament in London, Monday Oct. 18, 2004, to give a statement about redeployment of British troops in Iraq.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrives in Iraq for a surprise visit as controversy goes on over UK deployments.
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British Secretary of Defense Geoff Hoon said Wednesday that the training mission in Iraq being carried out by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is very important for both Iraq and the United States.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Baghdad on Tuesday to see top Iraqi officials after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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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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Ambassadors meet in Baghdad to discuss Iraq security situation.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a surprise visit to press Iraqi leaders to resolve their differences and ease raging sectarian violence that has killed thousands.
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Geoff Hoon is to make a Commons statement on proposals to put some troops under US command in Iraq.
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SEOUL - President Roh Moo Hyun made a surprise visit Wednesday to South Korean troops stationed in northern Iraq, the Blue House presidential office announced.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun made a surprise visit to Iraq Wednesday to meet his country's troops and told them to focus on their reconstruction work -- a nod to his concern they might get dragged into a combat role.
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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq  - President George W. Bush flew to Iraq with his security chiefs on Monday to meet the U.S. commander for a final review of the war before a showdown in Congress over troop levels.
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Officials from Western states and Iraq's neighbours are to attend talks in Baghdad on stabilising the country.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  flew into northern Iraq before dawn on Friday to make a  personal appraisal of the training of Iraqi security forces and  talk with his commanders.
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US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent&#39;s