British destroy own aircraft in Iraq
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A British Hercules airplane was damaged while landing in southeastern Iraq and later destroyed by coalition forces because of the risk of mounting a recovery operation, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
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A British C-130 military transport plane crashed Sunday north of Baghdad, scattering wreckage over a large area, officials said. At least 10 troops were killed, Britain's Press Association said.
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Sri Lanka's military says its fighter jets have destroyed a Tamil Tiger  base where its leaders were meeting.
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Britain LONDON -- US-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archeological treasures, a British Museum report said. The report, quoted in today's Guardian newspaper, said US and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to ...
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A number of British military personnel  died when an air force transport plane crashed northwest of  Baghdad on Sunday, Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2004 - US Marine jets destroyed a known enemy command and control post in Fallujah today, US military officials in Iraq reported.
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The MoD releases the names of 10 UK servicemen feared killed when an RAF Hercules plane crashed in central Iraq.
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A helicopter which crash-landed north near Baghdad was shot down, the military says.
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28 October 2004 -- US warplanes today destroyed a house in Al-Fallujah suspected of being used by the guerrilla group of Al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday that British troops died when a British military transport plane crashed north of Baghdad in Iraq.
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A US air strike in Iraq destroyed a building in Falluja believed used as a meeting place by terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his followers.
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RAMADI, Iraq : Six British and American troops were killed in Iraq over the last 24 hours as the US military battered the flashpoint city of Fallujah with air strikes ahead of an expected all-out assault.
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US forces destroyed a building in the rebel-held city of Falluja on Thursday that they said was being used by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group is threatening to behead a British hostage.
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British military aircraft scrambled Sunday to assist a civilian passenger aircraft after an incident, the Ministry of Defense said, adding that the jets later returned to base.
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Three British troops have been killed and a number of others injured, in Iraq. Send us your reaction.
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British investigators on Tuesday scoured  the wreckage of a military plane that crashed north of Baghdad  in a possible missile strike as London released the names of 10  servicemen killed.
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BASRA, Iraq  - An explosion at the entrance to a  logistics base in British-controlled southern Iraq wounded  several British soldiers and Iraqi civilians on Thursday, a  British military spokesman said.