The British troops transferred responsibility for security in Iraq's southern province of Basra to Iraqi forces on Sunday, nearly four months after the British troops pulled out from the former Saddam Hussein's presidential palace in the city of Basra.
The handover of the country's main oil export hub is the ninth province that was transferred to Iraqi control, making the Iraqis be able to control half of its total 18 provinces.
Basra, the second largest city in Iraq, is the last of five British troops-controlled provinces in southern Iraq moved to local Iraqi control.
Source: Xinhua
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