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More than 50 key workers at a weapons depot in Scotland have walked out - with another strike due next week - with one source claiming could earn more money at Lidl

A damning Intelligence and Security Parliament report, seen by Mirror, highlights UK's "completely inadequate" response to the long-term China threat as the nation's economic power grows

It is an astonishing twist after Putin called Prigozhin a backstabbing traitor and exiled him to Belarus, and it has fuelled claims the Russian regime has been hugely weakened

In the next few weeks the British will help train the Iraqi commandos to hunt down other ISIS cells

Bravery and determination – something we have seen all over Baghdad 20 years on from the 2003 invasion – drove Mohammed al-Najjar to create the team

The Mirror has returned to the scene of the bloodshed after negotiating via contacts for safe passage

Specialists are carrying out tests on DNA samples from the remains of a terror suspect collected after a cave was bombed in the Hamrin Mountains in north east Iraq

A number of senior Wagner Group executives and a handful of oligarchs have been earmarked for the Russian president’s hit squads, it is believed

Iraqi special forces uncovered chilling proposals for the attack just days ago after killing dozens of militants in a desert hideout, reports the Mirror's Chris Hughes in Baghdad, Iraq

Three children, including two sisters, are said to be among those killed in the missile strike in a shopping and restaurant area in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine

Flight tracking information shows two planes arrived in Belarus from Russia, amid Yevgeny Prigozhin’s exile rumours following his failed coup attempt

As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end

The US-made aerial workhorse is to be stood down from service - and a newly-released gallery of images shows its extraordinary range and power

The five-storey building in Kryvyi Rih, central Ukraine, was engulfed in a fireball in the early hours in latest attack from Russian invaders

Soldiers seized communities in the Vremivka Ledge area of Donetsk in the south east, beat back assaults in the frontline town of Avdiivka and gained half a mile in the Bakhmut region

At least 20 people have died since Tuesday’s bombing of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which Kyiv says the Kremlin orchestrated

Moscow’s forces reportedly hit the building in the Ukrainian-held part of Kherson where people fleeing the Dnipro River’s rising waters were gathered

President Zelensky called the aftermath an 'environmental bomb of mass destruction', as fears grew of an eco disaster from polluted waters, partly caused by oil leaking from the dam’s machinery

Russian saboteurs are prime suspects for blowing up a Ukrainian dam, triggering massive floods, and forcing thousands to flee for their lives, while also risking Europe’s largest nuclear plant

Vladimir Putin's pre-dawn air raid on Kyiv sent residents again dashing for shelters - one person died after debris hit a residential building and 34 others were injured, reports say

Kyiv sources are claiming that more than 100,000 soldiers have been killed battling for Bakhmut and that Ukraine’s soldiers will encircle them in the coming weeks

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES The withdrawal is a shift in Moscow’s war in Ukraine as it has led the way in Bakhmut, the scene of the bloodiest battles, despite having failed to completely take the town

Maia and Rina, aged 20 and 15, died instantly when their car was shot at and forced off the road last month and their mother died in hospital a few days later

Details emerging from the horror school shooting include the 13-year-old suspect making a sick 'kill list' weeks before he used his father's gun to leave nine dead and more injured

Russia has branded a two-drone air strike on the Kremlin a "terrorist act" as it accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate President Vladimir Putin with smoke filmed rising above the building