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RT
December 15, 2017
Four Iraqi men won damages against Britain's Defence Ministry over their ill-treatment by soldiers during the Iraq War. The High Court's ruling could pave the way for 600 more claims against Britain over human rights abuses. RT: Lawyers say these four test-cases could pave the way for hundreds moreÃâà...
Oxford Mail
October 12, 2017
The troops of 33 Squadron are to receive Battle Honours approved by Her Majesty the Queen. In Iraq the unit moved equipment and soldiers around the battlefield as well as transporting the wounded away from the frontline for emergency medical care. In November 2004 it operated from Camp DogwoodÃâà...
Belfast Telegraph
June 12, 2017
The figures show most of the claims, totalling 1,145 over the six years until British withdrawal in 2009, were settled for Ãâã2.1 million by the MoD's area claims officer in Iraq and did not reach public attention in Britain. The MoD has agreed Ãâã19.8 million in out-of-court settlements in 326 cases, out of a further 1,200 claims forÃâà...
Metro
July 6, 2016
After his seven-year inquiry, Sir John Chilcot has found that the UK invaded Iraq before peaceful, non-violent options had been exhausted. .... mortar into the air to prevent incoming attacks, during early morning perimeter checks at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles South west of Baghdad, Iraq (Picture: PA).
Scotsman
August 29, 2015
The most challenging tours of Cowan's career were in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2004, the Black Watch were supposed to be heading home after coming under intense fire in Basra and Al-Amara, when they were told they were to travel north to Camp Dogwood, 25 miles south of Baghdad to relieve US troopsÃâà...
CBS News
March 18, 2013
When the last U.S. troops left Iraq in Dec. 2011, the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" combat mission came to an end. On March 19, a decade after U.S. troops were first deployed to Iraq, we look back at the soldiers, civilians and communities affected by the prolonged conflict. In this photograph, Iraqi families leave Basra inÃâà...
Wired News
January 23, 2007
A homemade bomb exploded under a Humvee in Anbar province, Iraq, on August 21, 2004. The blast flipped the ..... At the 28th CSH near Camp Dogwood – home to more than 4,000 US and British soldiers – there was only one washer and dryer to launder all of the linen, including the surgical scrubs.
CNN
December 5, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two car bombs killed sixteen people and wounded 38 others Saturday when they exploded at an entrance to Baghdad's fortified ... The battle group of about 850 troops arrived in the southern port city of Basra after a two-day, 370-mile (600-kilometer) journey from Camp Dogwood,Ãâà...
BBC News
November 13, 2004
In the nine days that they have been here four soldiers have died in combat, with more than a dozen injured, in this first significant deployment out of the zone in southern Iraq which the British have controlled since last year. British forces have turned down American requests for support before, but agreedÃâà...
CBBC Newsround
November 10, 2004
A Black Watch soldier has been killed in Iraq and two more injured in an attack near their Camp Dogwood base. A bomb near a road is thought to have been involved and a military spokesman said one of the other soldiers was "possibly seriously" injured. It happened north of the UK battle group's base atÃâà...
BBC News
November 6, 2004
An Iraqi translator also died. Six of the injured are already back at base. The 850-strong force has been attacked repeatedly since it arrived at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles from Baghdad, on Friday, after a request from the US. The latest attack brings to 73 the number of UK military personnel deaths in Iraq.
BBC News
November 5, 2004
The final convoy of the Black Watch battle group have arrived at their central Iraqi base, Camp Dogwood. They had travelled ... Trooper Tim Clews, of the Queen's Dragoon Guards, drove the 360-mile journey from Basra in an open-topped Land Rover across some of the most dangerous territory in Iraq.
