Roger Waters has performed with wounded veterans.

President Barack Obama will mark a promise kept in a speech today, declaring the end of America’s combat mission in Iraq and wagering the wobbly Baghdad government can hold together against a still-dangerous uprising.

US President Barack Obama named a Republican congressman today to be the next Secretary of the Army, bringing another member of the opposition into his administration.

POP celebrity Cher has waded into the debate over the war on Iraq, saying that she was shocked by a recent visit to a hospital for wounded American troops.

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.