Chilcot Iraq war report: a timetable for a timetable
Sir John Chilcot has relented and said he will publish a timetable for his report … but not just yet.
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In Iraq, up to 100 people have been killed in a suicide truck bomb attack on a petrol station near the city of Hilla. It’s believed that most of the victims were Shia pilgrims – many from Iran.
Iraqi government forces say they have pushed Islamic State militants out of the city and raised the national flag over a government complex.
Iraq’s armed forces say they have fought their way to the centre of Ramadi, where Islamic State militants are holed up.
The so-called Islamic State has shown itself capable of striking civilian targets in western Europe. But is the terror group on the back foot in its heartlands of Iraq and Syria?
In joint operation with Kurdish peshmerga fighters US forces rescue 69 hostages being held by Islamic State militants in Iraq, says the Pentagon. One US serviceman died during the mission.
Sir John Chilcot has relented and said he will publish a timetable for his report … but not just yet.
Sir John Chilcot, who heads the much-delayed inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war, has consistently turned down extra help to speed up proceedings, says the cabinet secretary.
At least 100 people are killed by a suicide bomb blast in a town just 20 miles from Iraq’s capital Baghdad. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
There’s an update from Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry – but you may feel it doesn’t shed much light…
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi rejects US criticism of his military forces after they fled a confrontation with Islamic State in Ramadi.
The Iraqi government begins a counter-offensive against the Islamic State group after its fighters capture the city of Ramadi.
It has been a bad week for the American-led “strategy” against militants from so-called Islamic State – a strategy with the US president himself views with great qualms and some reluctance.
Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq, in the latest advance by the jihadist group against Bashar al-Assad’s struggling military.
Iran-backed Shia militias are preparing to take on Islamic State troops, according to reports, after the jihadist group took the city of Ramadi, in the western Iraq province of Anbar.
Islamic State militants stage a prison break in Iraq in which 50 inmates and a dozen policemen are killed, two Iraqi officials say.