From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
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In the summer of 1990, more than 350 passengers boarded flight BA149 at Heathrow. The plane was bound for Kuala Lumpur, but never made it that far. Instead it made a refuelling stopover in Kuwait City, just as Iraqi troops invaded in the first Gulf War. The passengers were held for months as “human shields”…
The Pope has arrived in Iraq for an historic three-day visit to the country, surrounded by tight security.
The President’s made a rare admission of error, after appearing to accept Vladimir Putin’s word over his own intelligence agencies.
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
Letters written by Tony Blair for the eyes of the US president only have now been declassified. What do they tell us about the Iraq War?
Tony Blair told US President George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever” eight months before parliament approved the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot inquiry has found.
Donald Trump is taking fire from US fact-checkers over dubious claims that he was against the US-led invasion of Iraq from the outset.
In 1998 Tony Benn spoke passionately against bombing Iraq. In 2015, his son Hilary’s rousing speech to MPs backed bombing raids over Syria. On both occasions Jeremy Corbyn was sitting near by.
David Cameron may have been at his most diplomatic to persuade MPs to back airstrikes on Syria, but his claims over the scale of Syrian opposition ground forces have raised doubts.
New photos are released of then US President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney co-ordinating the White House’s response to the 9/11 terror attacks.
Diplomats are trying to decrease tension in Lausanne and put a brake on Iran’s nuclear programme. The fear is what could happen if the talks fail.
Islamist militants in Iraq have blown up and bulldozed the remains of the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra, the Iraqi government says.
A combined force of Iraqi army, Shia militia and Kurdish peshmerga is trying to retake Tikrit from IS. But it is more likely to want vengeance than an orderly retaking of the area.
Better that at least some vestiges of previous civilisations be kept safe in the great museums of London, Berlin and New York, courtesy of the colonial looters of yesteryear.
The disaster of Libya provided much of the reason for not aiding Syrians who rose against dictatorship in 2012. But is the best course of action to do nothing?