"They forced me, and I killed her with a machine gun, sir," he says. The suspect, who is unshaven and appears to be in his 20s or 30s, was arrested by Iraq security forces after they retook most of ...

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 ...

Three British soldiers have died during the assault on Iraq's second city Basra, the Ministry of Defence said. News of the deaths come after British forces took control of large swathes of the ...

Bill Stewardson, from Woodhouse Mill, Sheffield, lost his son, Kingsman Alex Green, in January 2007, when the 21-year-old was fatally shot when escorting a convoy in Basra. Sheffield Wednesday fan ...

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 ...

Rose, from Pollok, Glasgow, says “it feels like only yesterday” she lost her son when he was on patrol in besieged Basra in Iraq ... US troops.” British soldiers from the B Squadron of ...

The comments were criticised by UK opposition politicians, who accused Vance of disrespecting British forces. Bill Stewardson, whose son Kingsman Alex Green, 21, died in Basra in 2007, said Vance ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- In an exclusive interview, CNN Correspondent Nic Robertson talked with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad Sunday. Below is a transcript of the interview: ...

In the late 1870s, Frederick Carter, an Irish-born navigator made good, found himself stationed in Basra, Iraq, as a “kind of de facto British official ... foot soldiers fuelled by a spike ...

By August, Denmark plans to pull out its 460 soldiers. And Lithuania ... Gates said British plans for a drawdown of forces in Basra would not likely affect U.S. efforts to build up its forces ...