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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soldiers in Abi al-Khasib in southern Iraq's Basra province last week found 168 ... The security official said British troops, who have overseen coalition operations in southern Iraq, were not ...

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 ...