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A former head of the British Army has claimed that “appalling” judgments by the US may have doubled the time it has taken to get Iraq into its current position.

PRINCE HARRY, home from his abandoned military mission to Afghanistan, said he hopes to return to combat zones as soon as possible.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today insisted that the withdrawal of British soldiers from their last base in Basra city did not amount to a “defeat” for the United Kingdom in southern Iraq.

The head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq has labelled post-war US policy “intellectually bankrupt”, it was reported today.

The former head of the British Army has said he believes innocent people were shot dead on Bloody Sunday in Derry 35 years ago.

The UK authorities promised Norman Kember’s family and his church that they would not attempt a rescue unless they could be reasonably confident that no-one would be killed, it was claimed today.

Peace activist Norman Kember was back on British soil today after a 119-day hostage ordeal in Iraq.

The most senior surviving officer from D-Day today spoke of the horrific memories that have never left him.

AS someone who lived in the North of Ireland in the late ’60s and ’70s I find disturbing the similarity between Belfast then and Basra now.

THE sister of Peter McBride, who was murdered in Belfast by British soldiers, recently highlighted the contrast between the treatment of Ptes Wright and Fisher and Major Charles Ingram.

A document compiled by the British army’s most senior officer detailing shots fired by soldiers on Bloody Sunday did not explain how 13 unarmed civilians were killed, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

The head of the British army, General Sir Mike Jackson was returning to the Saville Inquiry today to give evidence about documents he wrote on Bloody Sunday.

The UK's most senior soldier may be recalled to give further evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it emerged today.

The British Ministry of Defence is still withholding evidence from the Bloody Sunday Inquiry even though it is more than three years into its hearings, it was claimed tonight.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today welcomed a pledge from the British government that it had no plans to axe Royal Irish Regiment battalions as part of a scheme to cut troop levels in Northern Ireland.

General Mike Jackson, the British army's Chief of the General Staff, interrupted his duties in the Iraq war today to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

General Sir Mike Jackson, Britain's Chief of the General Staff, is to interrupt his duties in commanding British forces in the Iraq war to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it was confirmed today.

IRAQI officials have denied any uprising in Basra, but they say it has been the scene for the most civilian casualties — with 116 people killed and 659 hurt since the war began.

IRAQIS said more than 50 people were killed yesterday in an air raid on a Baghdad market after the United States unleashed some of the heaviest air strikes of the war on the capital.