DICK CHENEY’S name will be forever associated with one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century — the US-British invasion and occupation of Iraq.That fact would not in the slightest bit perturb the former US vice-president,

Promises of passports and lucrative monthly salaries of £2,100 are drawing hundreds of young Iraqis into Moscow's ranks to fight its war against Ukraine. Currently, one in three young Iraqis is unemployed and corruption is rampant, so the promise of these wages - more than four times the salary of an Iraqi soldier - has become irresistible to many.

Britain risked being dragged into an all-out war in the Middle East as the government made clear it was prepared to defend the US from an attack by Iran. Tehran said it had begun targeting America’s largest military base in the Middle East, just outside ...