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UK’s Iraq deployment – thin end of wedge?
A few dozen UK soldiers are going to train Iraqis, but if a third country can be found to host a bigger training programme, many more might be heading abroad to boost Iraqi expertise.
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Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have claimed their biggest victory in the fight against Islamic State militants.
The al-Sweady inquiry finds that British troops mistreated nine Iraqi detainees while in custody, but dismisses claims of murder and torture as “deliberate lies”.
Iran conducts air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Iraq, but the US says the strikes were not done in conjunction with the US-led coalition.
A British father of two, named in reports as Kabir Ahmed from Derby, is thought to have killed himself in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq.
A few dozen UK soldiers are going to train Iraqis, but if a third country can be found to host a bigger training programme, many more might be heading abroad to boost Iraqi expertise.
The first footage is released of British troops in Iraq. A 12-strong team from the Yorkshire Regiment trains Kurdish peshmerga fighters how to use heavy machine guns against the Islamic State group.
We don’t know if there were civilian casualties: the peshmerga said they feared the jihadists had forced women to accompany them as human shields.
Channel 4 News witnesses RAF fighter jets carry out an air strike in Iraq as part of the US-led mission against the Islamic State group, as British forces ramp up their campaign.
As RAF Tornados carry out their first strikes against Islamic State militants, I report on what this means on the ground from Dohuk, northern Iraq.
Islamic State group militants are said to be just one mile away from Baghdad – despite Iraqi ground forces holding them back in a key town near the city.
British Tornado fighter jets fly into Iraq ready to carry out air strikes against the Islamic State group, but the Ministry of Defence says no targets were hit in the first approved combat operation.
Richard Williams, former SAS commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, says air force action alone cannot win the US-led fight against the Islamic State group.
One minister said the truth is that the attacks that will be authorised with today’s vote are one step on a ladder of 20 rungs and no one really knows what the other steps will turn out to be.
British pilots could be in action over Iraq again soon. Is the legal case for military action stronger than the last time around?
MPs meet to debate whether to accept the Iraqi government’s request for air strikes to support operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq.