All news on the topic: Iraq

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Bride loses entire family when fire breaks out at wedding during first dance
The footage shown on local TV showed flames spreading over the wedding hall in Iraq while newlyweds Haneen and Ravan were dancing, before the fire soon engulfed the whole room
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Horror moment wedding fire that killed 100 erupts during couple's 'first dance'
The footage shown on local TV showed flames spreading over the wedding hall in Iraq while the couple were dancing, before the fire soon engulfed the whole room
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Huge fire at wedding venue kills more than 100 as flames rip through building
More than 100 people have been killed at at least 200 have been injured after a fire ripped through a wedding venue in Al-Hamdaniya in Iraq's northern Nineveh province
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ISIS bride let slave girl, 5, die of thirst next to crying mother
Jennifer Wenisch, from Germany, joined ISIS in Iraq and allowed a young girl to die of thirst for wetting the bed, after exploiting the child and her mum as slaves
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ISIS targets children with explosives placed in fake PlayStation controllers
Household items such as phones and TV remotes have been turned into weapons to target civilians and children. They have been discovered by the Mines Advisory Group charity
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Extraordinary bond between former hostage and man whose brother was murdere
Former Beirut hostage Sir Terry Waite and Phil Bigley, whose brother Ken was murdered by fanatics in Iraq, have spoken about their work together helping others
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British counter terror forces to help train Iraqi commandos in how to smash ISIS
In the next few weeks the British will help train the Iraqi commandos to hunt down other ISIS cells
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Symptoms of killer virus spreading across Europe and 'highly likely' to reach UK
An urgent health warning has been issued for - what has been described as - the current biggest threat to public health over new cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
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Deadly virus spreading across Europe is 'biggest threat to public health'
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is being spread by ticks across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with scientists warning it is "highly likely" it will reach Britain
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Iraq's amputee football team defy war injuries to represent rise from ashes
Bravery and determination – something we have seen all over Baghdad 20 years on from the 2003 invasion – drove Mohammed al-Najjar to create the team
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'We'll never forget dozens of unarmed students who were shot by US forces'
The Mirror has returned to the scene of the bloodshed after negotiating via contacts for safe passage
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'Carousel of corporate greed has hit the buffers as water companies struggle'
Under a deeply flawed system, they were allowed to load their companies with debt to pay their shareholders billions in dividends
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Islamic State leader 'killed in airstrike' as special forces bomb Iraq hideout
Specialists are carrying out tests on DNA samples from the remains of a terror suspect collected after a cave was bombed in the Hamrin Mountains in north east Iraq
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Preparing for retirement - beast of the skies that was backbone for UK military
The US-made aerial workhorse is to be stood down from service - and a newly-released gallery of images shows its extraordinary range and power
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'Al-Qaeda tried to kidnap me in Iraq' - marine tells of terror snatch bid
Lee West has shared his memories form a 17-year career as an elite Royal Marines commando including the moment he was nearly taken prisoner by terrorists in Baghdad
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RAF Typhoons blitz ISIS terrorists with seven 500lb bombs in Iraq raid
The fearsome 1,500mph ground attack aircraft carried out the mission as part of Operation Shader, the ongoing battle against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria
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Unbreakable bond of Iraqi blast victims who sought new life in Britain
Both Ahmed Farhan and Ali Abbas lost limbs as boys in the 2003 Iraq war after a horrific bomb blast, but now 20 years later they both have a new life in Britain
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FBI interrogator says Saddam Hussein knew two things about him within seconds
George Piro was the FBI agent hand selected to interrogate Saddam Hussein and spent seven months talking to the Iraqi dictator following the west's bloody invasion of the Middle East
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Marine and dad who survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan shot dead driving Uber
Los Angeles Police and Uber are investigating the death of army hero and father-of-two Aaron Orozco who was shot dead at a 7-Eleven in California after a 'physical altercation' with two early morning passengerts
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Former soldier killed in Iraq when ISIS bomb he was trying to defuse exploded
Stuart Coburn was working as a contractor for an international mine clearance company in Ramadi, Iraq when he died in 2016 while attempting to neutralise the improvised explosive device inside a skip
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Pilot recalls moment he rescued 23 Iraqis set for beheading from torture chamber
Alan Mack, who also hunted for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, describes the stroke of luck that led him and his team to rescue 23 innocent people from a torture house in Iraq
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Woman who saw 6 brothers slaughtered wants justice for ISIS genocide victims
The catastrophic decision to invade and occupy Iraq in 2003 led to the world’s most feared terrorist group, ISIS, emerging out of al-Qaeda and committing genocide against Nobel laureate Nadia and her people, the Yazidis
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Iraq veteran recalls seeing 'disembodied foot in a flip flop' during invasion
Sergeant Major John Thompson, 43, a single dad-of-three from Devon, was with the Royal Marines' Delta unit when they touched down on the sands of Iraq, with him later earning medals for his gallantry while in the country
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Mum of soldier, 19, killed in Iraq war bomb says Tony Blair 'murdered my son'
Speaking to the Mirror to mark the 20th anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Rose Gentle has said the memories of her son, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, will never die but that Sir Tony Blair is to blame for his death
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'I was there in Iraq 20 years ago - the invasion left behind violence and chaos'
The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false