It is 100 years since a little known music hall act wrote the song that became the marching anthem of the First World War, outlasting it to become one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, writes David Robson

A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment who was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named by the UK's Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Stephen McKee.

Final preparations are under way today to hand Basra province in southern Iraq over to the Iraqis.

A Northern soldier killed in Afghanistan was totally committed to his job, mourners today heard.

The Royal Irish Regiment is being awarded a Battle Honour by the Queen of England for its service in Iraq, it was announced today.

The US military says there were fewer bombings and mortar attacks in the Iraqi city of Mosul in July than any month since October.

A soldier was accused of lying today about being an eye witness as part of an attempt to cover up the Bloody Sunday shootings.

The hunt for the killers of six British soldiers in Iraq was continuing today after the British government warned it would be days before the truth of what happened emerged.

Six British soldiers died today in an Iraqi ambush in the ‘Sunni Triangle’ where Saddam Hussein has his greatest support.

MILITARY police were questioning a British soldier in custody yesterday after photographs emerged allegedly showing troops "torturing" Iraqi prisoners of war.

Soldiers of The Black Watch joined family, friends and townspeople today to pay tribute to a soldier killed in action in Iraq.

PARATROOPERS who shot and killed 13 unarmed civil rights protesters on Bloody Sunday were "savage, trained terrorists" who took pride and pleasure in "legalised murder", a former British major claimed yesterday.

Paratroopers who shot and killed 13 unarmed civil rights protesters on Bloody Sunday were “savage, trained terrorists” who took pride and pleasure in “legalised murder“, it was claimed today.