Fourth Bulgarian Unit Ready for Iraq
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Politics: 12 November 2004, Friday. The last phase in the preparation of Bulgaria's fourth infantry unit to set off for Iraq in about a month was completed, the Defense Ministry announced in a press statement.
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Description: US Marines, bolstered by hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, prepare for a full-scale assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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WASHINGTON -- In a diplomatic victory for the United States, NATO officials agreed yesterday to send hundreds of military advisers to Iraq this year to train local security forces as part of a new task force that could eventually grow to 3,000 personnel. Trainers from France, Germany, and other nations that bitterly opposed the US-led invasion are expected to join ...
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Poland&#39;s army has begun preparing a new troop contingent that would be sent to Iraq early next year if needed, the country&#39;s defence minister said Saturday, despite public opinion against the mission.
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NATO forces will deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Kosovo to take part in an operational rehearsal to ensure NATO troops and the Reserve Forces Headquarters are prepared to respond to a crisis in the ...
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The first units of a Black Watch battlegroup are due to arrive today in their new positions south of Baghdad as Tony Blair indicated that more British troops may replace them in the American-controlled zone before the end of the year.
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NATO foreign ministers agreed Thursday to launch the next phase of the alliance training mission in Iraq , a move that should see up to 300 military
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PRAGUE/MUNICH- The Czech Republic is ready to send three to five military instructors to the emerging mission of NATO in Iraq, Defence Minister Karel Kuehnl told CTK on Saturday.
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For the Record: 28 October 2004, Thursday. A day after the body of Bulgaria's seventh fatality in Iraq was returned to Sofia, a new round of soul-searching among Bulgarians set off about their country's ...
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Black Watch soldiers have held their last church service at their base near Basra in Iraq, before their move north. The battalion is getting its weapons, ammunition and Warrior armoured vehicles ready for the move to an area under American command.
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A top American commander said the more than 140,000 soldiers now in Iraq are likely to be needed there at least until next spring.
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Albania sent a fourth contingent of army peacekeepers to Iraq on Monday to replace troops who had served since April with the coalition force, the Defense Ministry said.
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The Pentagon has decided to bolster US forces in Iraq in advance of elections scheduled for late January by sending elements of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, NC, and extending
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Politics: 20 September 2004, Monday. Top officials from the Bulgarian Army and the Defence Ministry are planning a trip to Karbala in the upcoming days.
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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Bulgaria will keep on being a reliable U.S. ally in Iraq and in the international war on terrorism after general elections in June, President Georgi Parvanov said Monday.
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Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Black Watch prepare to move north into a US sector of central Iraq.