British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suit and told him that he was to be executed at the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp, according to allegations in a report Monday.

UK war criminal says troops kicked and punched Iraqi prisoners. Britain's first convicted war criminal said Monday that some of his fellow soldiers frequently beat Iraqi detainees.

Targeted by suicide bomb, Afghan Cabinet minister threatens to quit post, deplores insecurity. A powerful member of President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet threatened to quit after a suicide car bomb attack targeted him Sunday, killing five people, in the latest Taliban attempt to destabilize Afghanistan's struggling government. Two Americans were among six NATO troop deaths elsewhere.

LONDON (Reuters) - London will host a trio of military commanders and senior officials working on Afghanistan this week, with pressure building on President Barack Obama to decide on a new strategy for the eight-year conflict.

Girl in Afghanistan killed by box of leaflets dropped by British forces, UK says. Britain's Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a box of leaflets dropped from a British plane killed a girl in Afghanistan.

US says 2 members of NATO-led force killed in attacks. The U.S. military says insurgents have killed two members of the international force in Afghanistan in bomb attacks.

Five British soldiers have died from gunshot wounds in a single incident in Afghanistan which is now under investigation, Britain's Ministry of Defence said Wednesday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Technocrats and some existing ministers will be appointed to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new government, a spokesman said on Wednesday, but his main rival branded his re-election illegal and ruled out taking any part.

British soldier killed in explosion in southern Afghanistan. Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Investigations were under way on Sunday into the deaths of seven Afghan soldiers and police killed in what Afghan officials have called a mis-targeted NATO air strike.

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Britain has offered to hand over almost half of its sovereign territory in Cyprus to facilitate a peace deal between the island's estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the United Nations said Tuesday.

An investigation has been launched into allegations that British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.

British soldiers being investigated for fresh claims of abuse in Iraq. Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A cluster of UFO sightings over Britain in 1996 may have had more to do with public fascination with TV shows like the "X Files" than extraterrestrial activity, according to files released by the National Archives on Monday.

A report for Britain's Ministry of Defence leaked Sunday said the MoD's procurement programme was hugely inefficient and harming Britain's ability to fight enemies like the Taliban.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays surprise visit to troops in southern Afghanistan. Britain's prime minister paid a surprise visit Saturday to British troops in southern Afghanistan, promising more help to cope with Taliban insurgents who have inflicted casualties on the embattled force and undercut support in Britain for the war.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held private talks on Afghanistan with top US military commander General David Petraeus on Friday, Brown's office said.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown held private talks on Afghanistan with top US military commander General David Petraeus on Friday, Brown's office said.

New attacks killed three British troops, eight Afghan security personnel and a civilian, authorities said Friday, as presidential candidates pushed on with rallies for elections in two weeks.

Britain's opposition leader says there's a 'very strong case' for more soldiers in Afghanistan. There is a very strong case for sending more U.K. soldiers to Afghanistan, British opposition leader David Cameron said in an interview broadcast Sunday.