Iraq 'to end' US-backed patrols
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US-backed mainly Sunni patrols must be integrated into the security forces, Iraq's defence minister warns.
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Iraq will close all its borders for  five days starting next week, the government said on Thursday,  in a move designed to boost security.
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The US military says it plans to build a base near the Iraq-Iran border to curb the arms flow to militants.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it had closed its borders with Syria and Iran and extended the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it had closed its borders with Syria and Iran, and extended the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.-backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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Britain will reduce its contingent of just over 7,000 troops in Iraq by almost half in May as it hands the main province of Basra over to Iraqi army and security forces, a newspaper reported.
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U.S. commanders said the city will now be turned over to the Iraqi police and military forces one neighborhood at a time.
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Â· US guards start work after civilian deaths Â· Iraq to end immunity for security firms
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Poland will pull its troops out of Iraq by the end of 2005, when UN resolution 1546 endorsing the timetable for political transition in Iraq expires, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski says.
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British troops are being sent to patrol areas near Baghdad to allow US troops to take &quot;decisive action&quot; against Iraqi insurgents, Britain&#39;s top military officer has said.
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The US is to withdraw from next month 15,000 troops whose tour of duty in Iraq was extended to secure the 30 January poll.
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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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In April 2003, as the US-led invasion of Iraq was ending, the Pentagon projected in a formal planning effort that the US military occupation of the country would end this month.
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Foreign troop levels in Iraq could drop to less than 100,000 by the end of 2008 if Iraq's own forces were ready and security threats had diminished, Iraq's national security adviser said on Wednesday.
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Iraq announced plans on Tuesday to close its borders with Iran and Syria and lengthen a night curfew on vehicles in new emergency measures to try to curb unrelenting violence in Baghdad.
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The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government
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BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official conceded yesterday that expelling a private US company accused in the deaths of at least 11 Iraqis would leave a "security vacuum" and said the two countries would look at ways to better regulate companies that protect Western personnel and facilities in Iraq.