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Alex Thomson blogs about the fight against the Taliban as military commander Mullah Baradar is reportedly arrested in Karachi.
As the dust settles on Tony Blair’s “no regrets” statement, just how will his evidence at the Iraq inquiry be remembered in the history books? Channel 4 News looks at his answers.
Gary Gibbon
It’s sepulchral in the room itself. Reg Keys, sitting in the second row, stares grimly at the TV screen of Blair’s face unflinchingly. Mr Blair’s bodyguards – one standing, one sitting – stare out at the public. Mr Blair himself often seems to be in political more than “lessons learned” inquiry mode.
Channel 4 News international editor Lindsey Hilsum reviews Tony Blair’s evidence to the Iraq inquiry and recalls her own experiences in Iraq as the invasion became inevitable.
Tony Blair passes up the chance to apologise directly for the Iraq war to the Chilcot inquiry. Instead he admits he was sorry the action had been “divisive” as Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
On a pinboard in the Pentagon in the summer of 2004, as insurgency in Iraq took a turn for the worse, they put up a flier advertising a special screening of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 classic film The Battle of Algiers. It depicts the ruthless tactics employed by both French colonial paratroopers and nationalist guerrillas in…
Yemen has sent its prime minister, two deputy prime ministers and its foreign minister to today’s London meeting to discuss the situation in Yemen, blogs Jonathan Rugman.
In his explosive evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, former security and intelligence coordinator Sir David Omand fingers MI6 for failing to correctly interpret intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.
Finally for today a few suggestions of our own. Evidence begins at 10h00 – Gary Gibbon will be inside the Inquiry room for the main bulletin and we’ll be Live Tweeting from the press-room next door throughout.
Exclusive: a member of an investigative team working for Channel 4 News met Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian now charged with trying to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit.
It is at least encouraging that the latest attempted act of terrorism has sparked debate here in Yemen about what true Islam means, and what is right and what is wrong.
Jonathan Rugman visits Yemen’s capital Sana’a and finds a city battling poverty, insurgency and the threat of terrorism.
International political commentators say that Yemen’s lawlessness, porous borders and poverty have made it a safe haven for al-Qaida and a breeding ground for terrorism.
An interesting start to today’s session when journos and bloggers in the press room were told that a date given by one of last week’s witnesses – Sir William Ehrman – was wrong and had now been corrected in the transcript. Conspiracy theorists are already at work. Who is “fiddling”, asks one of this site’s…
Iraq war inquiry day three throws up a few gremlins and evidence that Bush and Blair may have agreed on the invasion at private talks in Texas 11 months before the war began, writes the Iraq Inquiry blogger for Channel 4 News.