When the next terrorist attacks come, will US presidents be able to channel public demand for revenge by precise targeting, explaining the trap that terrorists set, and focusing on creating resilience in US responses?
The Chilcot inquiry and subsequent report by Sir John Chilcot said diplomatic options had not been exhausted before British troops invaded Iraq.
The UK government’s infamous "sexed-up" September dossier on Iraq’s threat made the claim Iraq was producing biological and chemical weapons.
Kevin Davie travels to the revived marshland home of the enemies Saddam Hussein set out to destroy.
Tattoo parlours are becoming increasingly popular in Baghdad, despite opposition from traditionalists.
US policies have changed since it invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein a decade ago.
A video posted online purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime, lashing out against Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on lawmakers to withdraw confidence from one of his deputies as the country’s political crisis deepened.
No image available
/ 13 December 2011
Beneath the detritus and shacks constructed on al-Sadah is buried what might be one of the largest unopened mass graves in Iraq’s capital.
The release of the report into the Oil for Food scandal today may well reopen a Pandora’s box of allegations about kickbacks and diplomatic favours.
Former UK PM Tony Blair promised he would back the US in taking action against Saddam Hussein almost a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Tony Blair said on Friday he was determined to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam Hussein despite legal concerns.
Iraq’s divided political factions sealed a power-sharing deal more than eight months after an inconclusive general election.
The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait, almost seven-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion, media have reported.
No image available
/ 29 January 2010
The September 11 attacks changed the "calculus of risk" and meant it was not possible to contain Saddam Hussein through sanctions, Tony Blair said.
No image available
/ 25 January 2010
Saddam Hussein’s notorious henchman, "Chemical Ali", was executed on Monday, an Iraqi government spokesperson said.
No image available
/ 17 January 2010
An Iraqi court sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, the Saddam Hussein-era official widely known as "Chemical Ali", on Sunday to death by hanging.
No image available
/ 12 January 2010
Former UK PM Tony Blair sought a diplomatic solution to fears over Iraq’s weapons programme, a former aide said on Tuesday.
Iraq regained full control of its towns and cities on Tuesday as US troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
A drought is threatening Iraq’s marshes just as the region was recovering from Hussein’s draining of its lakes to punish a political rebellion.
Amnesty International said on Friday Iraq should halt the execution of 128 prisoners because their trials may not have met international standards.
Two major bombings in two days in Iraq have left scores of people dead and sparked new security concerns as United States forces prepare to pull out.
No image available
/ 31 December 2008
The man putting together Iraq’s newest museum doesn’t like to be alone in his office, where he keeps bloodied nooses.
No image available
/ 18 December 2008
Iraq has arrested about 50 interior ministry officials for plotting a coup against the Shi’ite-led government, it was reported on Thursday.
No image available
/ 2 December 2008
Saddam Hussein’s notorious hatchet-man, Hassan al-Majid, was on Tuesday sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shi’ite uprising.
No image available
/ 2 December 2008
George Bush has admitted that the decision to go to war against Iraq on the basis of flawed intelligence was the biggest regret of his presidency.
In 1992 Mark Higson, the UK foreign office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before an inquiry into arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein.
Plans to include an Adolf Hitler figure in the new Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum are being condemned by critics, who say displaying the dictator is tasteless and could attract neo-Nazis. Madame Tussauds argues Hitler is part of German history and deserves a place in the exhibition near the Brandenburg Gate.
Over lavish buffets in giant, air-conditioned tents whose generators battle with the searing summer heat, Kuwaitis have been arguing over an election that is being watched for signs that one of the freest countries in the Arab world is disillusioned with its political system.
Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator who was hanged in 2006 for crimes against humanity, feared he would pick up sexual diseases while he was United States custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arabic newspaper.
Robert Kagan, author, essayist, former diplomat, pre-eminent thinker of what is called ”neoconservatism” — and now foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain — would like it to be known that there are many things that he is not.
Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday threatened an ”open war” against the Iraqi government unless it halted a crackdown by Iraqi and United States security forces on his followers. The spectre of a full-scale uprising by Sadr sharply raises the stakes in his confrontation with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.