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The widow of a Scottish hostage whose body has been handed in to the British embassy in Baghdad five years after he was kidnapped says his family can now grieve for him properly.
The death toll from the Baghdad bombings has risen as President Obama’s opponents accuse him of leaving a dangerous vacuum in Iraq.
Iraq faces an uncertain future as the last US military units hand over control to local forces, amid continuing political uncertainty and sectarian violence.
Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says lives were not lost in vain as the US formally end operations in Iraq, ahead of a complete withdrawal of troops after nearly nine years of war.
Jon Snow
I have never been more frightened in any theatre of war. To be on the ground was to be adorned in a flak jacket and to feel very personally threatened at all times. I was there perhaps a dozen times. I heard the car bombs, saw the tell tale plumes of black smoke rising into the sky.
Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the uncertain future facing Iraq and the wider region as US troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of this month.
Reports that Washington is accelerating its withdrawal from Iraq by three weeks are a mixed blessing, says defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones.
“After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” President Obama has announced all US troops will be brought home by the end of this year.
Hundreds of Turkish commandos have attacked Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Officials say they have killed 21 PKK fighters in an offensive to avenge the deaths of 24 Turkish soldiers.
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers are attacking Kurdish militants in Iraq in a retaliatory strike, after PKK fighters killed 24 Turkish soldiers.
US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with an apparently untreatable and incurable lung disease are being dismissed as out of shape because tests appear normal, writes Sarah Jones.
Dozens of people are dead in Iraq after car bomb attacks on the southern cities of Kut and Najaf. It follows a string of bombings and suicide attacks across the country.
As a series of coordinated bomb attacks leave dozens dead in Iraq, Channel 4 News hears from a doctor, a teenage Christian and a human rights activist about day-to-day life in the troubled country.
Gary Gibbon
Tony Blair has received a letter from the Iraq Inquiry, suggesting he’s being asked to respond to criticisms in the inquiry’s draft report, writes our Political Editor.
A senior intelligence officer directly contradicts Alastair Campbell’s claims that the Iraq dossier wasn’t “beefed up” to make the case for war.