A US Marine officer has been thrown out of the service after a court martial convicted him of dereliction of duty and maltreatment of an Iraqi who died at the prison he commanded.

Controversial actor Tim Robbins condemned the American government and media today for their role in the Iraq war and the subsequent campaign against terrorism.

A US Army reservist charged with abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison is to plead guilty to some offences.

A female soldier in the Army’s 320th Military Police Battalion took “vigilante justice” on Iraqi prisoners who she believed had raped Army Private Jessica Lynch, according to a letter from the battalion’s commander.

A year ago today young Private First Class Jessica Lynch was dramatically sprung from an Iraqi hospital where she had been taken after her capture.

THERE’s talk of a reality show and a clothing line, speaking appearances and a book — a lot of attention for a 13-year-old girl who has never recorded a song or rehearsed a script.

A suicide bomber devastated the Italian military police headquarters in southern Iraq today, killing at least 24 people – most of them Italians.

At least 12 Italian military policemen and soldiers were killed today when a suicide bomb ripped through their headquarters in southern Iraq.

At least six Italian military policemen were killed when a truck bomb blast tore through their headquarters in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah today.

THE authorised biography of Private Jessica Lynch debunks early myths that American troops waged a daring rescue to save her, and describes a team of Iraqi doctors as gentle caretakers who worked at their own risk to keep her alive.

Photographs showing rescued American soldier Private Jessica Lynch topless with two male soldiers have been bought by the owner of Hustler.

FORMER prisoner of war Private Jessica Lynch screamed and struggled with Iraqi doctors trying to anaesthetise her after one of them said they were going to amputate her leg, according to newly released excerpts from her soon-to-be-released authorised biography.

Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has attacked the US military for manipulating the story of her dramatic rescue in Iraq and said they should not have filmed it in the first place.

Rescued American soldier Private Jessica Lynch reveals in her new book that she was raped by her Iraqi captors, it was reported today.

The father of an American soldier who died in the Iraqi ambush that turned Jessica Lynch into a national heroine today attacked her for signing a million dollar book deal.

JESSICA LYNCH, the former PoW whose capture and rescue from an Iraqi hospital made her a US celebrity, has signed a book deal that will put her on the way to becoming a millionaire.

Jessica Lynch, the former PoW whose capture and rescue from an Iraqi hospital made her a US celebrity, has signed a book deal that will put her on the way to becoming a millionaire.

Just one day after the NBC television network announced the cast for its film about the ordeal of Army Private Jessica Lynch, Lynch has withdrawn her co-operation.

FORMER US Army PoW Jessica Lynch returned to her West Virginia home to a hero's welcome yesterday, and in her first words since her rescue said: "It's great to be home".

CBS may have been wrong to raise the possibility of a TV movie while trying to bag an interview with former Iraq prisoner of war Jessica Lynch, the American broadcast giant has said.

FORMER New York Times reporter Jayson Blair said he “couldn’t stop laughing” when the newspaper corrected his fraudulent description of an American POW’s home in West Virginia, according to excerpts of an interview with the New York Observer.

The Iraqi lawyer who helped US troops rescue American prisoner of war Jessica Lynch was honoured by an American lawyers’ group.

It is unlikely that rescued PoW Jessica Lynch will ever remember what happened when her Army convoy was ambushed in Iraq and she was captured, her doctor said today.

An Iraqi lawyer who helped American commandos locate and rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has been granted asylum in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced today.

A plane carrying seven US prisoners of war who were rescued in Iraq have arrived at a military base in Germany, where they were to be examined at a military hospital.

The first made-for-television film based on events in the war in Iraq is already in the works.

THE seven rescued US prisoners of war (POWs) were increasingly certain they faced death, as their Iraqi captors were unsure what to do with them.

Countless tips from Iraqis about everything from POWs to weapons caches are providing essential information to British and American forces seeking to stabilise the country and unravel its mysteries.

IRAQI troops released seven captured US soldiers - some wounded but in good condition - to US Marines yesterday, a surprise discovery near where troops were entering Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.

The final stronghold of Saddam Hussein’s regime appeared tonight to be on the verge of falling to allied forces.

Marines found seven missing US troops today on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit.

A Marines task force headed north from Baghdad today, seeking to destroy any Iraqi forces remaining on the route to Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.

Rescued POW Jessica Lynch’s family today described her as cheerful, strong-willed and thinking about home while recovering at a military hospital in Germany from wounds suffered in Iraq.

THE American POW rescued

BEFORE setting off for Belfast, President George Bush met a group of Iraqi-Americans who wanted to talk to him about who should be installed in Baghdad after Saddam got his come-uppance. One of the points they made was that not speaking good English shouldn’t be a barrier to power in the new Iraq.

THE US military yesterday said it had found the body of the bodyguard of Iraqi commander “Chemical Ali,” but Iraq dismissed reports the military chief himself may have died in an air strike.

SPIRITED and hungry, rescued prisoner of war Private Jessica Lynch arrived in Germany for treatment of two broken legs and bullet wounds she suffered in a fierce gunfight with her Iraqi captors.

AN intelligence tip helped special operations forces identify Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch, aged 19, as being held

American troops were today searching for more US prisoners of war in Iraq after the daring rescue of a 19-year-old army supply clerk held for nine days in central city of Nasiriyah.

US forces in Iraq have rescued 19-year-old US soldier Jessica Lynch, who was being held prisoner in Iraq, it was announced today.

A teenage American woman soldier is among a dozen soldiers reported missing after a supply convoy was ambushed in southern Iraq, her father said.