Still serving in Iraq

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The US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division’s 1-64 armor was the first into Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Although many of the soldiers have since moved on, some stuck around. And they have now seen an invasion, an insurgency, a civil war, a counter insurgency, and now the country’s second round of elections. Ben Gilbert talks with soldiers about what could be their last deployment to Iraq. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

• BBC Iraq coverage
• The logistics of withdrawing from Iraq
• Ben Gilbert’s photos from FOB Q-West

The logistics of withdrawing from Iraq

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The US military is currently closing down operations on several forward operating bases and handing them over to the Iraqis. It’s not an easy task: the Logistics Brigade at FOB Q-West in northern Iraq is currently figuring out what to keep and what to leave behind. They’ll be the last Americans to leave the FOB this summer. Ben Gilbert reports. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

• Ben Gilbert’s photos from FOB Q-West
• Ben Gilbert on joint patrols in Iraq
• The struggle for Iraq

Iraq elections

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Results are slowly emerging in Iraq from last Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Anchor Marco Werman gets the latest from reporter Ben Gilbert, who’s in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

US troop presence in Iraq

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The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse accompanies US troops on a mission in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The mission is unusual, since American soldiers withdrew from Iraqi cities last month.