If Donald Trump re-enters the White House after the 5 November elections, countries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea will be delighted
‘The Arch’ never stopped joking as he fought oppression locally and globally, writes Thembisa Fakude.
Ratings agencies and derivatives caused the housing bubble, but where does the next financial crisis lurk?
Four militants attacked a parade commemorating the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
Mosul may no longer be a pillar of Iraq’s identity
Christmas for Iraq’s remaining Christian community means celebrating behind blast walls and barbed wire.
A series of car bombs in mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad has killed 60 people and wounded 140.
US policies have changed since it invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein a decade ago.
A wave of attacks targeting both Iraq’s security forces and civilians killed 35 people, in a second day of deadly violence.
A series of more than 25 attacks across Iraq have killed 56 people and wounded over 250 others with security forces and markets among the targets.
Although the West is pulling out its armies, the war is by no means over for the Arab world, a former adviser warns. Nick Hopkins reports.
American military doctors are reporting that the number of suicides in the US army rose by 80% after the US launched the war on Iraq.
President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of Iraq by the end of the year.
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has asked why CIA failed to warn him over Iraqi defector who admitted fabricating Iraq bioweapons evidence.
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.
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/ 25 October 2010
Washington on Sunday came under increasing pressure to investigate allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks released nearly 400 000 classified US files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse.
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/ 13 September 2010
Nelson Mandela was so upset over UK invading Iraq that he called a government minister and "virtually breathed fire", the ex-minister has revealed.
The US military is experimenting with aromatherapy, acupuncture and other unorthodox methods to treat soldiers traumatised by combat experiences.
UK PM Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq on Friday that going to war had been the right decision.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a grilling over his role in the Iraq War in front of a public inquiry on Friday.
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/ 30 January 2010
The families of British military personnel killed in Iraq condemned Tony Blair’s performance before the Chilcot inquiry on Friday.
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/ 28 January 2010
Former British prime minister Tony Blair will face a public grilling on Friday over his decision to wage war on Iraq.
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/ 18 January 2010
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will make a much-anticipated appearance before an official inquiry into the Iraq War on January 29.
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/ 13 December 2009
Britain’s Iraq War inquiry said on Sunday that former prime minister Tony Blair would be questioned "very much in public".
Several thousand followers of radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for an end to US occupation of Iraq after prayers on Friday.
Iraqi and United States officials also confirm that Britain’s remaining 4 000 troops in the country would leave by the end of July.
No one knows how many children had parents torn from them by the war, or the conflicts waged by Saddam against Kuwait and Iran.
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/ 28 February 2009
The reopening of the National Museum has sparked a new cultural awareness, writes Martin Chulov.
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/ 16 January 2009
In a project started late last year Iraqi artists are taking objects that have brought devastation to Iraq and using them to create instead.
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/ 16 December 2008
All foreign troops except for US forces will be out of Iraq by the end of July, said the head of the Iraqi Parliament’s foreign affairs committee.