A sergeant in the US army reserve pleaded guilty to five charges of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison when a court martial opened at a US base in Baghdad today.

A US army reservist charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners is expexted to plead guilty at a Baghdad court martial today to four counts arising from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

A US military judge has recommended a court martial for Private Lynndie England over the Iraq prison abuse scandal, but said the young army reservist was “easily led” and had been “heavily influenced” by an ex-boyfriend.

A US military policewoman accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal had the charges against her reduced yesterday as a set of pre-trial hearings wrapped up at an American base in Germany.

TOP Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, a high-level panel investigating the detentions has concluded, a defence official said yesterday.

Four US soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison face pre-trial hearings before an American military judge in Mannheim, Germany today and tomorrow.

A hearing in Baghdad for a US soldier accused of prison torture was postponed today because his lawyer was too frightened to go to Iraq and wanted to defend him by phone

A US army court will hold pre-trial hearings in Baghdad next week for three soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi inmates in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

An American soldier was jailed today for his part in the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.

US Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits pleaded guilty today to three counts of abuse in the first court-martial stemming from the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.

As President George Bush appeared on Arabic television today in a bid to limit the damage caused by photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, a new image emerged which would shock the world.

ABUSE of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers may be widespread and orchestrated by US intelligence agencies including the CIA, it was claimed yesterday.