Britain to cut Iraq troops to 2,500 by next year: Brown
Britain is to cut its number of troops in Iraq by more than half to 2,500 by next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in a long-expected statement to lawmakers.
"We plan for next spring to reduce force numbers in southern Iraq to a figure of 2,500," he said, a week after saying in Baghdad that there would be 1,000 fewer troops in Iraq by the end of the year, down to 4,500.
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