Iraqi witnesses today recounted how seven US Marines and a Navy corpsman kidnapped an Iraqi man from his home and shot him dead.

A music video posted to the internet, telling a tale about a US Marine killing members of an Iraqi family, is being condemned by an Islamic group and investigated by the Marine Corps.

A Wicklow man has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court.

A senior officer of the US-backed Fallujah Brigade today disputed US claims that an air strike had hit a safehouse of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s network.

The Lebanese editor of the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has been sentenced in absentia to one year in jail for falsely reporting that Lebanon’s president was the target of an attempted assassination, judicial officials said in Beirut.