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The Dutch Iraq Inquiry concludes war had no legal basis
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon looks at the conclusions drawn by the Dutch Iraq inquiry in The Hague.
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Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon looks at the conclusions drawn by the Dutch Iraq inquiry in The Hague.
The inquiry kicks off this morning with Baghdad 2004-5. The first hearing starts at 11.30am, with diplomat Edward Chaplin, who we heard from in the first week.
Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq wat inquiry enters day three as Sir Christopher Meyer takes to the stand as key witness, writes the Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
At the Iraq war inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot, two Whitehall witnesses “look drained” as they recall the debate over weapons of mass destruction (WMD), writes Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
As former Irish premier John Bruton announces his candidacy for European Council president, Gordon Brown continues to talk up Tony Blair’s credentials for the job
The spokesman for Sri Lanka’s ministry of disaster management responds to claims that his country was involved in human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings.
Colonel Greville Bibby, ever the pukka officer, was trying to impress the deputy governor. They were sitting on red cushions in an empty building the military had commandeered. Chah-e-Anjir was under Taleban control until a few weeks ago, and they were there, along with the British ambassador, Mark Sedwell, to reassure the population that the…
The announcement by the head of Iran’s guardian council that locally employed British embassy staff in Tehran are to be put on trial plunges UK-Iran relations to a level possibly even lower than when British sailors were captured and accused of infringing Iranian territorial waters back in 2007. Back then President Ahmadinejad let the sailors…
Russia has consistently denied targeting civilians in Ukraine, today branding claims it bombed the maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol as ‘fake news’.
In President Assad’s heartland the Russian decision to start air strikes on Syrian rebel positions is being hailed by ordinary people, who hope they mark the beginning of the end of a long war.
The online abuse I’ve received while covering the refugee and migration crisis is more than any other story I’ve reported.
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
“Were you afraid of Jihadi John?” “No, because I’m a Muslim. He was right to kill those journalists because they were all spies under the cover of journalism.”
Too often UN appointments are made entirely on political patronage and not at all on competence. This time the former has been tempered by the latter.
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?