British Military Begins Deployment in Iraq
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Some 800 British forces, accompanied by US Marines, began making their way toward Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds.
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BRITISH troops joined their US and Iraqi counterparts in a massive new offensive against insurgent strongholds yesterday as efforts intensified to restore government control in time for January 30 elections.
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The army confirms that a unit of the Welsh Cavalry - the Queens Dragoon Guards - will be supporting British forces moving into central Iraq.
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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 troops begin the move north to take over operations from US troops in central Iraq.
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Around 350 British troops are to return to the UK from southern Iraq four months early.
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The U.S. military kicked off a  buildup of forces in Iraq by 12,000 troops on Friday as 82nd  Airborne Division soldiers began leaving Fort Bragg, North  Carolina, to boost security for Jan. 30 Iraqi elections.
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Soldiers from the Black Watch are preparing to target criminal and terrorist gangs as they settle into the regiment&#39;s latest base in a US-controlled area of Iraq.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be deployed to Iraq, the government has announced.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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The United States wants Britain to deploy troops in more volatile parts of Iraq, as a new offensive on insurgent-held Fallujah looms, reports from Britain said.
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Britain began deploying about 800 of its Black Watch troops north toward Baghdad from their base in southern Iraq on Wednesday, the British military said.
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The Ministry of Defence announces that an extra 220 British troops are to be sent to Iraq.
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Some 200 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment arrived back in Britain after spending a month deployed in one of the most violent areas of Iraq.
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The long-awaited Baghdad security operation has begun, the top United States military spokesman in Iraq said today.
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Troops from the Black Watch regiment have begun a major operation in central Iraq.
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British troops will formally take a back seat to Iraqi forces in the southern province of Basra on Sunday with the handover of security responsibility to government troops.