Incredible 108-year-old Victoria Cross belonging to Pirate of Basra sells for £200k
The British intelligence Officer sailed on daring missions during the First World War with a skull and crossbones flag after ...
Victoria Cross awarded to 'Pirate of Basra' WWI secret agent who was 'murdered' by Turkish troops in Iraq sells for £200,000
Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Cowley took part in a suicidal mission to reinforce the besieged Kut garrison in ...
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Syria’s New Rulers and Minorities: Clash or Compromise?
This raised doubts that the new leadership’s intent was not only to suppress armed dissent but also to punish the civilian ...
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Over £48k raised for Iranian Embassy raid SAS Hero’s care home costs – after The Sun’s urgent appeal
He also served in Oman, the Falklands and in the Iraq War, where he was shot in the ... the remaining hostages under the name Operation Nimrod. Two teams of commandos stormed the building on ...
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Over £55k raised for Iranian Embassy raid SAS hero’s care home costs – after The Sun’s urgent appeal
He won a bravery medal in Oman in 1972, served in the Falklands and, aged 58, killed an insurgent in hand-to-hand combat in 2003’s Iraq War despite having been shot in the head. Fiji-born Tak ...
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Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel
Nimrod Cohen, 20, was taken from Nahal Oz ... who was released in November 2023. Iraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 86, was killed shortly after being abducted by gunmen from his home in Kibbutz Kissufim.