Blair announces major withdrawal of troops from Iraq
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Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Wednesday Britain's first large-scale cut of troops numbers in Iraq, with nearly a quarter set to return home within months.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will order nearly half the British troops in Iraq home by the end of 2007, British news outlets reported early Wednesday.Comment
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British officials said they expected  all foreign combat troops to withdraw from Iraq within four  years, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew into Baghdad  to show support to its new government on Monday.
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British media sources say Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce a large-scale troop pullout from Iraq Wednesday.Comment
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LONDON: Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, media said.Comment
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told MPs at Westminster that multinational forces in Iraq are about to enter a period of increased activity.
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The number of British troops in Iraq could be increased if needed, Tony Blair says - a day after announcing the withdrawal of 1,600.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  announced on Wednesday the start of the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked  set on Wednesday to outline a timetable for British troops to  start withdrawing from Iraq, with media reports saying 3,000  soldiers could be home by the end of the year.
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Britain will withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq in coming months if local forces can secure the southern part of the country, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday.Comment
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The withdrawal of 1,600 British troops from Iraq follows military advice but also shows Tony Blair's desire to minimise the damage the conflict has caused his premiership, analysts said Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Wednesday that Britain would reduce its troop levels in Iraq  by 1,600 over coming months, but its soldiers would stay in the  country into 2008 as long as they were wanted.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, British media said.Comment
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, British media reported.Comment
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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 Prime Minister Tony Blair was to announce on Wednesday that his country will begin withdrawing thousands of troops from Iraq within weeks, according to media reports.Comment