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Saddam Hussein lived a life of luxury as millions of Iraqis faced horrors - but the dictator was captured in morbid squalor as The Mirror's Chris Hughes recalls the 'rank' conditions 20 years on

Due to the fallout from the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, European countries could face a "huge risk" of terrorist attacks over the Christmas period

Some Ukrainian troops have deployed domestic and stray cats to help manage the infestation of rats and snakes - of which there are nine types in Ukraine

Hamas quickly claimed responsibility for the atrocity in Jerusalem where three people were killed and 16 injured in a bus stop shooting by two Palestinian gunmen

The truce between Hamas and Israel is due to end on Thursday morning - and now Egyptian and Qatari mediators are carrying out talks to potentially extend it for longer

Efraim Halevy, a former Israeli spymaster has warned that the battle with Hamas is not even at its halfway point and that it "will last for longer than either side could have anticipated"

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, has seen the western world impose huge wide-ranging sanctions on Russia and its economy. Even more have been announced today targeting Kremlin-backed gold and oil

The Mirror's Defence and Security Editor Chris Hughes gives his latest take on what is happening on the ground in Gaza City. He thinks a ceasefire is becoming increasingly unlikely

Israeli hostage freed by Hamas abductors say they treated her 'with softness and supplied all our needs' but also recalled the hellish torment of the moment she was snatched

A sea of green Hamas flags outnumbering the yellow cloth banners of the West Bank’s ruling party Fatah waved through the dusty, winding streets of Jalazone Camp

Saturday was the first time any help had reached Gaza since the war began, but the head of the UN’s World Food Program has warned the amount of aid is not enough

Air-strikes on the Palestinian Strip continued on Friday as conditions for residents worsened amid rationing of medical supplies as they await aid convoy from Egypt

As the Mirror's Chris Hughes dodges shelling on the frontline at Gaza border, he meets two locals who are refusing to leave their homes - even as rockets explode overhead

Mirror's Chris Hughes reports from near Israel’s flashpoint border with Lebanon, where he witnesses massive troop build-up and is warned Hezbollah’s death squads will come

Israeli intelligence experts say a 5,000-strong Hezbollah death squad, the Radwan 125 unit, has trained to smash through security walls before killing and kidnapping Israelis

Experts fear a mass evacuation of more than a million Palestinians in Gaza from north to south ahead of an expected Israeli invasion could be 'tantamount to a death sentence'

Every 30 seconds 155 mm Howitzers are being blasted into the Palestine enclave as thousands of soldiers muster for the assault

Rishi Sunak has announced two Navy ships and UK military aircraft will be sent to help Israel as violence the country and Gaza escalates following Saturday's attack from Hamas

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Pope Francis called for peace and King Charles branded last week’s Hamas raid on Israel “appalling”

As the UN begged Israel and Hamas to stop targeting civilians, fears were growing for thousands of people, including women and children, caught up in the bitter conflict

Reports say there are young children, including a 6-year-old boy and a young girl among the dead at the grocery store in the Kupyan district of Kharkiv region

Ukraine's snipers are set to be given "invisibility capes" which can hide them from Russian thermal camera and are also waterproof and lightweight in their fight against Moscow

Ukraine's security service caught an undercover Russian spy sneaking into a top secret drone school in Ukraine as he covertly took photographs of military positions

The SBU seized a four-strong deep-cover team activated to snoop on Kyiv’s troop movements and weapons deliveries, including the group's leader - a Ukrainian - and his wife

The Russian president is so worried Ukraine war has turned people against him he needs a jailhouse of horrors where he can lock up activists - and he's eyeing a facility in Siberia