British Leave Basra to Iraqi Security Forces
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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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British forces formally handed over responsibility for Basra province Sunday, the last region in Iraq under their control.
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British troops getting ready to head to an area near Baghdad are "relieved" a decision has now been made.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed responsibility for security in Basra province to Iraqi forces on Sunday, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of the southern part of Iraq.
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British forces are due to hand back control of security in Basra province to Iraq, four-and-a-half years after the invasion.
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British troops in Iraq are withdrawing from their base in Basra palace to the city's airport.
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British troops began withdrawing Sunday from their base inside the southern Iraqi city of Basra &#151; their final position in the country's second-largest city, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.
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Iraq formally took security control of the southern oil province of Basra from British forces on Sunday, paving the way for Britain to sharply reduce its nearly 5,000-strong troop presence.
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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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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, leaving the southern oil hub without British forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed over security in Basra province to Iraqi forces on Sunday, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq.
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Long-awaited exit from palace - last remaining base for UK troops in Iraqi city - is imminent, sources say.
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The operation to hand over security in Basra to Iraqi forces has been completed and successful, Tony Blair says.
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Hundreds of  Black Watch troops pull out of Camp Dogwood and return to their base in Basra in southern Iraq.
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Britain agreed Thursday to send 850 of its soldiers from relatively peaceful southern Iraq to a volatile area near Baghdad, freeing U.S. troops to step up attacks on insurgent strongholds west of the capital.
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Some 850 of Britain&#39;s Black Watch troops set out from the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday to replace US troops south of Baghdad.
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Iraq is ready to take over security in the entire southern province of Basra from the British military, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told visiting Defence Secretary Des Browne on Wednesday.