No Exit for British in Poor Corner of Iraq
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Despite progress, foreign troops who arrived with the intention of toppling Saddam Hussein must remain to sort out grievances and keep the peace.
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Heavy casualties are reported as US and Iraqi forces try to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar.
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Long-awaited exit from palace - last remaining base for UK troops in Iraqi city - is imminent, sources say.
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Two British soldiers have been shot dead in an ambush near Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said. They had been trying to rescue the passengers in an armoured Land Rover hit by a rocket propelled grenade.
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British forces seal off the aera after a bomb planted in a trash can exploded in Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, outside the complex of the British and American consulates as a British convoy drove out, police said.
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British troops redeployed in central Iraq to support US forces have come under fresh attacks at their base south of Baghdad, the BBC reported Wednesday.
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LONDON - British troops will be sent to central Iraq from the country&#39;s south, UK Defence Minister Geoffrey Hoon said Thursday.
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Â· Britain alarmed by critics in US administration Â· Ministers deny mission in southern Iraq has failed
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Back in the Iraq he once fled, Samir couldn't see down the darkened hole enough to see who was hiding there.
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A battle group of British troops rolled out of southern Iraq on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad, in a major political gamble for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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TONY EASTLEY: To Iraq now, where three British soldiers have been killed and a number of others injured in an ambush by insurgents.
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By Damien McElroy, Sean Rayment and Aqeel Hussein in Fallujah. The British hostage Kenneth Bigley made a desperate bid for freedom through a farming district on the outskirts of Latifiya on Thursday.
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A kidnapped British aid worker made another plea for her life in a video aired Wednesday, urging Britain to withdraw troops from the country as some 800 British soldiers headed north toward Baghdad to bolster US forces.
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British troops leave the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Thursday, Oct 21, 2004. Britain said Thursday a battalion of British troops would be redeployed into volatile central Iraq, meeting a US request despite
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Hundreds of British soldiers left southern Iraq on a risky mission closer to Baghdad to free up US forces for a possible assault on rebel-held Fallujah, as Tokyo stood firm after militants threatened to behead ...
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control if the violence continues.
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British Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington Regiment, move toward the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, during clashes with armed gunmen.