All this adds up to a tense situation across Iraq that is keeping allied soldiers on edge.

He gave permission to keep female British soldiers as slaves.

This is the argument once used to keep black soldiers in segregated units, a bit of military history that seems unthinkable today.

"They try to keep soldiers down here, they'd lose five a week at least," he went on.

They also keep soldiers off the roads, he said, where roadside bombs are common.

This means that people cannot be forced to keep soldiers in their houses.

It is always difficult to keep soldiers, even the best of soldiers, under control at such times.

Attempts to keep soldiers out of the bars and in the camps had, so far, failed.

The other reason was that the king needed money to keep soldiers in Ireland.

Although this was an extremely unusual case, military psychiatrists agree that their first job is to keep soldiers fighting.