THE brother of a British Black Watch soldier who was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq said yesterday that he had died in a war started for money and oil.

US forces are poised for a major assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, a general said today, as hundreds of British troops reached a base near Baghdad to free American forces to join the onslaught.

Britain's Black Watch troops have arrived at their new base south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence announced today.

WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison claimed yesterday that his name is already part of Scottish boxing history.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must think Iraqis are “stupid” if he continues to promote Ireland as a neutral state, it was claimed today.

THE bodies of about 50 Iraqi soldiers were discovered yesterday after apparently having been killed in an ambush by insurgents.

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

Two Kenyan truck drivers taken hostage by a gang of Saddam Hussein’s brutal militiamen were freed by British soldiers, it emerged today.

Britain's Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon expressed regret today over the “tragic” deaths of two British soldiers whose tank was mistaken for Iraqi armour and destroyed by “friendly fire“.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the second British soldier known to have died in combat in Iraq.

The population of Iraq’s second city was tonight attempting to throw off the shackles of Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to reports.