UK troops pulling out of Basra palace base: source
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British troops are pulling out of a base  at a palace in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday, a  British Ministry of Defense source said.
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British forces seal off the aera after a bomb planted in a trash can exploded in Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, outside the complex of the British and American consulates as a British convoy drove out, police said.
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The British Prime Minister announces the withdrawal of some British troops from Iraq; Denmark follows suit
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Britain announced on Wednesday the withdrawal of almost one 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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UK forces are to hand back control of security in Basra province to Iraq, four-and-a-half years after the invasion.
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The last British troops withdraw from central Basra to an airbase outside the southern Iraqi city.
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Britain confirmed on Thursday it will withdraw its more than 600 remaining troops from Bosnia as concerns about security in the Balkan state ease.
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Britain will reduce its contingent of just over 7,000 troops in Iraq by almost half in May as it hands the main province of Basra over to Iraqi army and security forces, a newspaper reported.
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Britain's military deployment in southern Iraq is to be cut by 500 to 5,000 over the next few months, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, just six days after British troops withdrew from their base at Basra Palace.
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The officer overseeing the withdrawal of UK troops from central Basra says it was an "important step".
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Thousands of British soldiers will leave Iraq over the next year, significantly downgrading the country's commitment in the region, the defense secretary said Monday.Comment
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The withdrawal of British troops from Basra was delayed due to US pressure, a UK commander in Iraq claims.
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British troops are preparing to depart Iraq's second city in the coming months, leaving behind an intra-Shi'ite power struggle
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- British troops completed a withdrawal from downtown Basra on Monday, moving to an airport outside the city, their last base in Iraq. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the move part of a British strategy to shift from combat to an "overwatch" role.
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Britain put Iraqis in command of the  main Iraqi army unit in Basra on Tuesday, a move billed as  paving the way for Washington's main ally to formally announce  major cutbacks in troops.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, triggering a new political standoff in Washington over U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to deploy thousands of extra U.S. soldiers.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce Wednesday a timetable for withdrawing hundreds of British troops from Iraq in the next few weeks, the British Broadcasting Corporation reports. TV and newspaper reports say 1,500 soldiers will leave Iraq within weeks and that 3,000 of Britain's contingent of 7,000 will leave by the end of the year.