One British soldier died in the fighting for Basra, killed by an improvised bomb. Military sources claimed the vast majority of the southern city was now under British control with troops digging ...

Troops came under attack from gunfire and returned fire in one incident in Basra but no injuries were reported on either side. The British soldiers from the King's Own Regiment, wearing body ...

The British defense minister on Tuesday said the number of British troops in Iraq will remain at the current level of around 4,000 for the time being. Des Browne, briefing the House of Commons, said ...

Ahmad Jabbar Kareem Ali, 15, drowned in the Shatt al-Basra canal after being forced into the water as part of the practice, known as "wetting", used by British soldiers against potential looters ...

Injured British soldiers being carried by stretcher down ... landed on the Iraqi coast and taken control of the port city of Basra and been ordered to advance towards the capital city of Baghdad ...

In Basra, the British, along with American air support ... whichever is the armed resistance the soldiers are up against. Farther south, the British say they have secured most of the area around ...

A man who was badly injured while serving in Iraq and other veterans have raised more than £90,000 for charity through an ...

A British soldier was killed in an "accident" in the Iraqi city of Basra, according to the British Ministry of Defense Sunday.‏ The soldier, serving with the 35 Engineer Regiment, was killed ...

A Sheffield man whose son was killed in Iraq has condemned "glib" and "offensive" comments about overseas troops by US ...

tortured and executed in the aftermath of the 2004 “Battle of Danny Boy” near Basra, in which members of the Mahdi army, an Iraqi militia, ambushed a British patrol. Mr Wood was summoned to ...