'Bring troops home by Christmas'
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The mother of a young soldier killed in Iraq says UK troops should come home before the end of the year.
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Politics: 31 December 2004, Friday. Bulgarian troops in Diwaniyah will meet the New Year together with their fellow-soldiers from the Polish-led multinational division in Iraq.
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KILLEEN, Texas -- Hollie Keahtigh had hoped until Thursday that her husband, an Army captain in Fort Hood's First Cavalry Division, would be home from Iraq to spend Christmas with her, their 5-year-old son, and 2-year-old daughter.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will order nearly half the nation's troops in Iraq home by the end of 2007, British news organizations report. The move comes as the U.S. is sending more troops into Iraq. The war has claimed more than 130 British lives, has never been popular with the British public and has cost Blair politically.
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The Black Watch battle group has been set back into its Basra base ahead of the soldiersâ anticipated return to the UK for Christmas.
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FALLUJAH (Iraq) - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit to Iraq yesterday and told US troops the war could still be won.
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CAMP FALLUJAH, Dec 24: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vowed America would prevail in Iraq even as he admitted &quot;setbacks&quot; during a surprise Christmas Eve visit to raise the morale of US troops in the country.
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The Queen sends a special Christmas message of 'gratitude and respect' to British troops in Iraq.
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President Bush's plan to call tens of thousands of U.S. troops home from Europe and Asia could gain him election-year applause from military families, but won't ease the strain on soldiers still battling violent factions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hungary&#39;s prime minister said yesterday that the country&#39;s 300 troops stationed in Iraq will return home by the end of March.
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ISKANDARIYA, Iraq  - The first stroke of Christmas  found U.S. Marines blasting down doors in a hunt for an  insurgent leader in one of Iraq's most hostile towns, hoping to  serve him up to their commanding officer as a Yuletide gift.
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Now that President Bush has approved a plan to gradually bring home some U.S. troops from Iraq, some of the families of the first unit to ship out are, surprisingly, not happy.
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-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve at an air base in Mosul where a suicide bomber killed 14 US troops and eight other people earlier this week.
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Families of soldiers killed or still serving in Iraq will deliver a wreath to Downing Street and demand troops be brought home.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  paid U.S. troops in Iraq a surprise Christmas Eve visit after  weeks of controversy over his handling of the war and perceived  lack of sensitivity to U.S. forces and their families.
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Senior military sources tell the BBC that Black Watch troops could be flying home earlier than expected.
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Black Watch troops are set to return over weekend - in time to hear the defence secretary's announcement on their future.