All news on the topic: Iraq

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Islamic State leader 'killed in airstrike' as special forces bomb Iraq hideout
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
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Preparing for retirement - beast of the skies that was backbone for UK military
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
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'Al-Qaeda tried to kidnap me in Iraq' - marine tells of terror snatch bid
Lee West has shared his memories form a 17-year career as an elite Royal Marines commando including the moment he was nearly taken prisoner by terrorists in Baghdad
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RAF Typhoons blitz ISIS terrorists with seven 500lb bombs in Iraq raid
The fearsome 1,500mph ground attack aircraft carried out the mission as part of Operation Shader, the ongoing battle against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria
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Unbreakable bond of Iraqi blast victims who sought new life in Britain
Both Ahmed Farhan and Ali Abbas lost limbs as boys in the 2003 Iraq war after a horrific bomb blast, but now 20 years later they both have a new life in Britain
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FBI interrogator says Saddam Hussein knew two things about him within seconds
George Piro was the FBI agent hand selected to interrogate Saddam Hussein and spent seven months talking to the Iraqi dictator following the west's bloody invasion of the Middle East
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Marine and dad who survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan shot dead driving Uber
Los Angeles Police and Uber are investigating the death of army hero and father-of-two Aaron Orozco who was shot dead at a 7-Eleven in California after a 'physical altercation' with two early morning passengerts
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Former soldier killed in Iraq when ISIS bomb he was trying to defuse exploded
Stuart Coburn was working as a contractor for an international mine clearance company in Ramadi, Iraq when he died in 2016 while attempting to neutralise the improvised explosive device inside a skip
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Pilot recalls moment he rescued 23 Iraqis set for beheading from torture chamber
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
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Woman who saw 6 brothers slaughtered wants justice for ISIS genocide victims
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
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Iraq veteran recalls seeing 'disembodied foot in a flip flop' during invasion
Sergeant Major John Thompson, 43, a single dad-of-three from Devon, was with the Royal Marines' Delta unit when they touched down on the sands of Iraq, with him later earning medals for his gallantry while in the country
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Mum of soldier, 19, killed in Iraq war bomb says Tony Blair 'murdered my son'
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
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'I was there in Iraq 20 years ago - the invasion left behind violence and chaos'
The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false
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9 Mirror front pages that captured strength of opposition to bloody Iraq war
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
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'Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq is a warning to Keir Starmer on defence spending'
The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party
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Soldier recalls horror of squad shooting dead child 20 years on from Iraq war
Dana Krull fought in Iraq with the 101st Airborne division for seven months but 20 years later he still dreams about his time in the army every night and the PTSD has never really left him
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Soldier who raped and killed girl, 14, says 'I didn't think of Iraqis as humans'
Steven Dale Green was one of the US soldiers who raped teenage Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in the Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq and he has spoken of how the atrocities of a war dehumanise people
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Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horror war crimes
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people
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Terry Butcher plants tree in memory of his soldier son and to honour late Queen
The England football icon spoke of his pride at joining an initiative to plant one million trees to commemorate the life and service of Elizabeth II
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Migrant stabs student in random attack 'so he can be deported back to homeland'
Rebaz Mohammed, who entered Britain illegally, was jailed for six years after stabbing a university student in an attempt to be sent home to Iraq.
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British Army chiefs say troops are 'up for a scrap' if they're needed in Ukraine
The Royal Anglian Regiment will next year command NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force - and the Mirror joined troops from the regiment as they trained in the Omani desert
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Recent major UFO sightings reviewed as 'airborne object' shot down over Canada
Four UFOs have been shot down over North America and the news has spread around the internet like wildfire, but are they from out of space, or somewhere more down to earth?
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Late NFL legend killed in Afghanistan to be honoured at Super Bowl LVII
The Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII and before the match an NFL legend who was killed while serving his country in Afghanistan will be honoured
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Model seized by police in Iraq crackdown on publishing 'indecent' content
Iraqi model Asal Hussam was arrested in Baghdad after being accused of 'publishing videos against public morals' on social media. She had recently posted a provocative photo of her wearing a military uniform
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Dad who strangled woman to death told police he killed her to 'wash away shame'
Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her