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US drones in Pakistan are failing to kill many militant leaders, according to analyst Peter Bergen who tells Channel 4 News only two per cent of deaths are senior Taliban or al-Qaeda figures.
Former diplomat Sir Roderick Lyne became Sir Rottweiler but then Tony Blair’s return to the Iraq Inquiry was eclipsed by another Downing Street drama, writes political commentator Peter McHugh.
As Tony Blair appears again at the Iraq Inquiry, Channel 4 News examines the questions likely to be on the agenda as Tony Benn insists the former PM’s secret letters to President Bush must figure.
Jon Snow
The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.
The number of drone strikes in Pakistan, believed to be led by the CIA, has doubled under the Obama administration in 2010 – leading to hundreds of deaths. Channel 4 News maps a secret war.
The Prime Minister has denied the G20 summit is “meaningless” and given his views on the student protests and waterboarding in a wide-ranging interview with Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
The US midterm election results suggest Americans think Obama has got it wrong on the economy. But what does that mean for Britain, David Cameron and our own economic recovery, Gaby Hinsliff asks.
The secret files show that two-thirds of deaths 2004-09 were civilians and that significantly more ordinary people were killed at checkpoints than enemy fighters.
Iraq’s war logs published by WikiLeaks reveal US troops appeared to abuse Iraqi prisoners after the Abu Ghraib scandal, turned a blind eye to Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture and imprisoned one in 50 Iraqi men.
Iraq’s secret war logs published by WikiLeaks show Iraqi civilians were attacked by US Apache Hellfire missiles and in some instances fighters were killed when trying to surrender.
There is so much data the Channel 4 Dispatches team had to design their own computer programme to sift through it – and the results of that are truly startling, writes Alex Thomson.
That’s the question many Americans still can’t answer. Before he was even elected Obama was called “the biggest celebrity in the world” Yet most Americans feel they still don’t really know him.
New Republican senate candidate Christine O’Donnell dismisses comments she made more than a decade ago about having a “picnic on a satanic altar” while dabbling in witchcraft.
Britain’s presence in Afghanistan has seen military deaths soar beyond 300. But what lies next for UK forces? A former commander and soldier write for Channel 4 News about future strategy.
As the last fighting forces leave Iraq, US soldiers have been proclaiming they “have won the war”. President Barack Obama didn’t dare make such bold claims in his address from the Oval Office.