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Iraq: why looting can be a good thing
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.
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Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State group militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say.
Video emerges on a social media website purportedly showing Islamic State fighters militants bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq.
Iraq’s armed forces, backed by Shia militia, begin a a campaign aimed at driving Islamic State militants out of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.
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.
It looks terrible – vandals of the Islamic State attacking ancient Assyrian statues with sledge-hammers.
A joint Iraqi-Kurdish military force of up to 25,000 fighters is being prepared to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State, a US official says.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologises for incorrectly recalling a story about being shot at in a helicopter during the Iraq war. But surely the internet would be sympathetic? Yeah, maybe not.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams retracts a story he told on air about coming under fire while travelling in a US army helicopter in Iraq in 2003.
Even John Chilcot can never have anticipated the years of toil, obfuscation and delay that would surround his efforts in trying to find the truth about the Iraq war.
Sir John Chilcot tells MPs his long-awaited report on the Iraq war will be released as soon as possible and denies he was put under pressure to delay publication because of the election.
Sir John Chilcot tells MPs on the foreign affairs committee his inquiry’s report into the Iraq war will be published as soon as possible, but not before the election.
No one knows how to delay an urgent inquiry into serious misjudgments, mistakes, and misdoings, than the British ‘system’.
The long awaited Chilcot report into Britain’s role in the Iraq war – intended to be published at the end of 2012 – will now not be released until after the general election, government sources say.
Iraq’s prime minister is concerned Britain and the US will deny him what he needs to run the country securely – 12 years after they invaded the country.
Islamic State frees around 200 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, delivering them to safety in the country’s Kurdish north.