Fear and loathing in Baghdad
I was in Baghdad in 2003, filming “shock and awe”. Despite the violence, it was a time of hope. But now the Iraqi capital is riven by terrorism and state-sponsored violence.
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The leader of the global terror group is recovering slowly from a coalition air strike in the Nineveh province of Iraq, according to reports.
Islamic State group militants are said to be just one mile away from Baghdad – despite Iraqi ground forces holding them back in a key town near the city.
A suicide bomber attacks a checkpoint near the home of new Iraqi prime minister designate Haider al-Abadi, as he begins his efforts to unite the country against jihadi militants.
Iraq’s interior ministry says a video, purporting to show Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in his first public appearance, is a “farce”.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the self-styled leader of a new global jihad. On Tuesday he urged followers to “embrace this change” in a recording posted online. So what do we think we know about him?
I was in Baghdad in 2003, filming “shock and awe”. Despite the violence, it was a time of hope. But now the Iraqi capital is riven by terrorism and state-sponsored violence.
The Foreign Secretary William Hague tries to persuade Iraqi political leaders to form an inclusive government to fight Isis, who control much of the north of the country.
Iraqi forces are gathering north of Baghdad, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the capital has prompted the United States to send military advisers to the country.
Iraq was not Barack Obama’s war. But a US president with a track record of resistance to military excursions in Muslim lands cannot dodge the judgement calls he now has to make.
A spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraam (Isis), urges fighters to march on Baghdad, as the group makes rapid advances through Iraq and Kurdish fighters secure the northern city of Kirkuk.
A wave of co-ordinated car bomb detonations in Shia areas of Baghdad and a suicide bomb attack against soldiers kills 56, officials say.
A wave of car bomb attacks kill dozens in Baghdad on Monday morning, the latest violence in a campaign against Iraq’s Shi’ite minority.
More than 50 people are feared dead after a wave of car bombings in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy describes meeting some of the heroes of post-war Iraq as Unreported World gains exclusive access to the Baghdad bomb squad.
Am a few days into my Baghdad trip and it has been riveting, frustrating, confounding of my expectations and alarming in almost equal measures.