President Obama is right to play down the US withdrawal from Iraq.

President Barack Obama has brought down the curtain on the seven-year conflict in Iraq.

A senior volunteer for Wikileaks in the US was detained as the FBI steps up its investigation into the leak of thousands of Afghanistan war secrets.

Claims that more than one hundred Iraqi civilians were tortured and abused by British soldiers must be fully investigated, Britain's High Court was told yesterday.

General David Petraeus has formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan.

Pregnant Muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies, research has found.

The British Government has paid off more than 1000 innocent Iraqis.

Increases in terror attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded there last year.

Our small country has a long record in world peacekeeping.