Ulster veterans will NOT be covered by new law to halt witch-hunts against military veterans accuse of wrongdoing on battlefields abroad New Overseas Operations Bill will protect veterans accused of wrongdoing But the Bill will not apply to soldiers who served in Northern Ireland Dennis Hutchings, 78, accuses of government of ‘discriminatory behaviour’ Hutchings is … Read more
A barrage of rockets has hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led coalition troops for the second time this week, security officials said. Three coalition service personnel – a British woman and two Americans – were killed in the first attack on Camp Taji on Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack on coalition troops in … Read more
Distraught friends and relatives of the British soldier killed in Iraq hailed her as ‘a true hero’ and an ‘incredible force of nature’. Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon died when Iranian-backed gunmen fired missiles on a military base on Wednesday. She was the first British soldier to be killed in combat during the current fight against … Read more
The foreign secretary has welcomed US retaliatory air strikes in Iraq, calling them a ‘swift, decisive and proportionate’ response to a missile attack that killed a British servicewoman and two American troops. US fighter jets struck five weapons storage facilities on Thursday, in response to Kataib Hezbollah’s missile attack on the Taji camp in Iraq. Lance … Read more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has today labelled an attack on an Iraqi military base that killed one British soldier as ‘deplorable’. One British soldier and two American troops were killed, and about a dozen people were wounded when 15 small rockets hit Iraq’s Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence said … Read more
Two American troops and one from Britain were killed, and about a dozen people were wounded when 15 small rockets hit Iraq’s Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday, said U.S. officials. The number of U.S. troops injured has not been confirmed. The officials said it was too early to assign blame, but any … Read more
Dramatic photos posted to social media on Monday show US and Iraqi special forces on a mission to clear out an ISIS stronghold in the predominantly Kurdish north just before two American GIs were killed in a firefight. The incident prompted Brett McGurk, President Trump’s former envoy to the coalition to defeat ISIS, to blame … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 3,200 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and over 94,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 3,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and almost 90,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of … Read more