Iraqi authorities will continue to need British military support in the south of the country “for some time to come”, the UK's Deputy Prime Minister said today.

A correspondent for The Washington Post has been shot and killed while on an assignment in Baghdad, the newspaper says.

A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein’s forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed today.

AMERICAN troops backed by helicopters and war planes have launched a major offensive against insurgents in a remote desert area near the Syrian border.

American troops backed by helicopters and war planes have launched a major offensive against insurgents in a remote desert area near the Syrian border, and about 75 militants were killed in the first 24 hours, the US military said.