Iraq Follow

Last Saturday Turkish troops crossed into Iraq in a dangerous escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. Supported by helicopter gunships and artillery, they attacked an alleged group of fighters belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Kurdish nationalist guerrilla organisation.

The US military are claiming that the "surge" of 30,000 troops in Iraq has stabilised the occupation. Is this true?

The occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are producing unease in the army.

The ministry of Defence was heavily criticised at the inquest into the death of Gordon Gentle, a soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in June 2004.

Some 25,000 people demonstrated in Ankara, Turkey, last Saturday against military attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq.

British and US troops are turning away from confronting the Iraqi resistance – despite the rhetoric from Gordon Brown

More than three years after 19 year old Gordon Gentle was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, an inquest into his death finally opened on Monday.

‘We in Britain focus on the abuse committed by US troops in Iraq. But we are uncomfortable with what our own troops have been up to.

A deadly attack by US helicopter gunships killed tens of civilians in Baghdad’s Sadr City.

The US has promised Turkey that it will crush Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq who are fighting for an independent homeland in eastern Turkey.

On Tuesday 8 October Marou Awanis was driving through Baghdad when she accidentally got too close to a convoy guarded by "private security contractors". The guards opened fire on her car, killing her and one passenger, and injuring others in the back seat.