Hoon visits British troops in Iraq
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visited his country&#39;s troops in Iraq today and said he saw no reason to delay next month&#39;s elections as preparations are on track.
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The bodies of servicemen killed in a RAF plane crash in Iraq are due to be returned to the UK on Tuesday, Geoff Hoon says.
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Britain's next prime minister met with Iraqi leaders on Monday in a surprise visit following promises to study his country's participation in the conflict.
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Hundreds of British troops are getting ready to go to central Iraq in response to a US request for assistance. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told MPs the deployment would last &quot;weeks rather than months&quot;, and
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visited troops in southern Iraq, rendezvousing with Scotland's Black Watch battalion, just back from a dangerous mission and heading home to an uncertain future.
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Some 850 British troops and support personnel will move to patrol areas closer to Baghdad following a U.S. request, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Thursday.
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Britain is considering moving some of its troops in Iraq outside their normal area of operations in order to help bolster the American antiterrorist offensive, the British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said today.
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It makes military sense for the UK to accept a US request  for troops south of Baghdad, says the top British soldier in Iraq.
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GEOFF HOON, the Defence Secretary, came under sustained attack in the Commons yesterday, and almost all of it from his own side. He had come to tell us that the Americans had asked for 650 British troops to help them out in Iraq.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was visiting British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, just days after a battle group returned from a controversial deployment near Baghdad.
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Geoff Hoon is to make a Commons statement on proposals to put some troops under US command in Iraq.
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The UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says 850 British troops are to be sent to a US-controlled region of Iraq close to the capital.
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrived in India from Pakistan for talks with the defence and foreign ministers.
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The British Ministry of Defense confirmed on Friday that British troops redeployed to provide military assistance to US troops in central Iraq have arrived at their new base near Baghdad.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Oct 05 (PID) - A four member defense delegation, led by Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Defense of United Kingdom will arrive tomorrow (5-10-04) on two days visit to Pakistan.
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Geoff Hoon is to address the Commons on Monday about proposals to put some British troops under US command in Iraq. The defence secretary is expected to confirm a formal request for assistance has been received from the Americans.
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Britain's Ministry of Defense said Friday that it was discussing coalition troop deployments in Iraq with the country's interim government and U.S. officials.