The US Secretary of War reportedly called his Iraqi counterpart to issue its "sternest warning yet" to Baghdad. Reports in Iraq are swirling about a phone call that reportedly took place between US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his Iraqi counterpart.

Cheney dramatically expanded the use of White House executive power in selling and waging one of the most disastrous and avoidable wars in US history.

Dick Cheney left office as US vice president reviled by many as the man behind the Iraq war, and the lies that led to it, and as one of the architects of a programme of torture that robbed America of its moral authority.

The former US vice-president is widely regarded as the driving force behind George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq and the US War on Terror.

Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, but that will not work so long as there is a U.S.-led coalition in the country that some Iraqi factions view as an occupying force,

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody war Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.

The White House lowered flags to half-staff on Tuesday following the death of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Reuters reported. While leading US political figures expressed condolences over Cheney's passing,

Iraqi Defence Minister Thabet al-Abbasi has revealed that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a stark warning during a phone call, telling Baghdad that military operations in the region were imminent and urging Iraq to prevent pro-Iranian armed factions from interfering.