Great Britain · Warfare / Iraq War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Blair says as many as 1,600 of the 7,100 troops stationed in southern Iraq will leave in the next few months. "What all this means is not that Basra is how we want it to be, but it does mean that the next chapter in Basras history can be written
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