The video showing what the fifth beheading victim of the Islamic State militant known as Jihadi John was released just hours after reports emerged that he was injured in an allied air strike.

A US Army interrogator facing up to life behind bars for killing an Iraqi general by stuffing him head-first into a sleeping bag and sitting on his chest will instead escape with a reprimand, a military jury ruled early today.

AMERICAN troops confiscated what they believe may be gold bars worth up to €423m after stopping a truck at a roadblock yesterday.

American troops confiscated what they believe may be gold bars worth up to €417m after stopping a truck at a road block.

Allied military chiefs are offering bounties for information leading to the capture of Saddam Hussein and his leading henchmen, they said today.