Dick Cheney Dies Aged 84

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has died aged 84, according to a statement from his family.

Cheney was part of the Republican administration of former president George W Bush.

He was a central figure in the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and allied forces. 

Dick Cheney was vice president to Republican President George W Bush between 2001 and 2009.

He also served as secretary of defense under George Bush Snr, between 1989 and 1993.

Before that, Cheney acted as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in the 1970s, before spending a decade in the House of Representatives.

A former businessman, Cheney was chairman of defence firm Halliburton, and in his personal life was an avid hunter – having infamously shot a friend accidentally while hunting.

He most recently stirred political controversy when he threw his support behind Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 US election.

Cheney was most prominently known as a central figure in the George W Bush’s "war on terror" following he September 11 attacks in 2001, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq.