All news by author: Rachel Hagan

Alan Mack, who also hunted for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, describes the stroke of luck that led him and his team to rescue 23 innocent people from a torture house in Iraq

The catastrophic decision to invade and occupy Iraq in 2003 led to the world’s most feared terrorist group, ISIS, emerging out of al-Qaeda and committing genocide against Nobel laureate Nadia and her people, the Yazidis

Speaking to the Mirror to mark the 20th anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Rose Gentle has said the memories of her son, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, will never die but that Sir Tony Blair is to blame for his death

As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq today, we look back at The Mirror's coverage from the time which showed the strength of opposition to the war

Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"

The court said in a statement that Vladimir Putin "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"

Megan and Barry Coster breed about 700 calves a year at their stud farm in Ripplebrook in West Gippsland, Australia, but have never seen markings like this

At the three-hour lunch in Moscow, warmonger Bashar Assad met his top ally Russian President Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his support of the war in Ukraine

Ali Anter, believed to be Yemen's and the world's oldest man has gnarled, horn-like growths protruding from the side of his head and has died at the reported age of 140

The child named 'Maddox' was rushed to a hospital on the New South Wales coast in Australia with severe injuries from the mower blades before later dying. Maddox was described as a 'little angel'

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said 12 people were killed by the floods in the southeastern Sanliurfa province while two others died in the neighbouring Adiyaman province in Turkey

The family's 17-year-old cat Brandy did not return home in Sydney, Australia, and so the heartbroken owners checked their security footage and made the shocking discovery

Mare Zijlstra, 25, from the Netherlands, believes the condition was caused by her pet as she was later diagnosed with allergies to dogs, cats, dust mites and pollen

The footage shows Russian President Vladimir Putin gripping his desk at the Kremlin in Moscow amid fresh claims he is suffering from “intensified pain in his abdomen"

Two Brit men, aged 65 and 46, have drowned off the coast of the Maldives just two days apart after diving in hammerhead shark-infested waters

Hussein Abu al-Khair, 57, was a driver for a wealthy Saudi and was arrested by authorities in 2014 for allegedly carrying amphetamine pills across the border from Jordan

Five lorries and 37 cars were involved in the pile-up on the M1 motorway near the village of Herceghalom on Saturday, believed to be caused by a dust storm in Hungary

A Pyongyang source said the intelligence agents were ratted out by a colleague who spotted them abusing their internet privileges and now one of the agents faces execution

The group had just reached a narrow ledge at a waterfall in the Banhoek Mountains near Stellenbosch when they were hit by a barrage of rocks from some territorial baboons above

North Korea dictator, Kim Jong-un, supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the so-called enemies

Jennifer Wenisch, 31, and her husband, an ISIS fighter, bought the five-year-old girl and her mother as slaves in Iraq before they chained her up in the scorching sun and left her to die

Member of Bundesrat for Hamburg Andy Grote told a press conference the tragic news today: "Among the dead, there is also an unborn child, seven months, that was hit in the mother's womb"

The 82-year-old suspect confessed on Tuesday to burying her neighbour's dog, Nina, in the garden in the Brazilian municipality of Planura

David Joy, 55, was climbing the 3,600m Mount Halgurd with a group of local and international hikers before he reportedly fell 700 metres over rocks, ice and snow, breaking both his legs

Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, who was killed in his office by a bomb, is one of the highest-ranking figures to be killed since the Taliban swept back to power in 2021