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December 15, 2009 - When Marines hear they must live at a small patrol base for a long time, many think of primitive facilities, dirty conditions and bland, packaged meals coming from brown bags.
October 21, 2004 - Britain has accepted a U.S. request to move some of its troops in Iraq closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for counter-insurgency operations ahead of Iraqi elections in January.
October 18, 2004 - Britain says it could deploy combat troops near Baghdad to free up U.S. forces for counter-terrorism operations before Iraqi elections planned for January.
September 28, 2004 - Troops from Multinational Force Iraq conducted an early-morning precision strike on a site in southern Fallujah, military officials in Iraq announced in a written statement. The statement said the site was a confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist site.
April 21, 2004 - Iraqi officials say more than 60 people, including many children, were killed Wednesday, in a series of explosions in or near the southern city of Basra.
August 23, 2003 - British military officials in Iraq say three British soldiers have been killed in southern Iraq. Officials say the three British soldiers died and another was wounded in the southern city of Basra.
March 31, 2003 - American and coalition troops in Iraq will be watchful to mitigate any further enemy suicide attack attempts, the U.S. military's top officer recently told British interviewer David Frost.
March 28, 2003 - The Iraqi capital of Baghdad came under heavy bombardment Friday with coalition warplanes targeting communications facilities and Republican Guard units poised to defend the city from a ground attack.
March 26, 2003 - The Pentagon is reporting several hundred Iraqis forces have been killed after U.S. troops came under fierce attack south of Baghdad Tuesday.
March 25, 2003 - U.S. led coalition forces have advanced to positions 80 kilometers from Baghdad as coalition warplanes target installations in Baghdad of Iraq's elite Republican Guards. Despite the advance, the U.S. led forces continue to meet pockets of resistance.
March 24, 2003 - Baghdad has been battered overnight by bombs and missiles, as coalition ground forces continue to advance toward the Iraqi capital. The air strikes follow a day that American officials are calling the most difficult since the war began five days ago.
November 18, 2002 - United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a four year absence to resume searches for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
