"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...