The present study aims at analysing the rhetorical devices to investigate the way Iraqis image was constructed in the British news headlines after the US-led invasion of Iraq. Since such discourse comprises the gist of the whole news text. The number of samples for the current study is (15) news headlines. The corpora were extracted from two British broadsheet platforms, namely, The Independent and The Guardian. The study adopted van Dijks (2000) socio-cognitive model for analysing and interpreting the data under investigation. The findings of the study reveal that the Iraqis image is constructed through various rhetorical devices, viz. repetition, euphemism, dramatization, and metaphor. Repetition appears to be the most frequent rhetorical device; thereby, British journalists emphasized the impact of bribes and robbery on Iraq, confirming the normalization of corruption in Iraqi society. Furthermore, the study shows that the UK press depicted the suffering of children and violence against women in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion. Therefore, the results of the study show that the Iraqis image is negatively constructed in readers minds. Finally, the implications of the study show that the Iraqis image is constructed negatively due to ignorance of historical, cultural, social, and religious knowledge.