On the front line of Islamic State’s war on history
Graffiti sprayed last year on the ruins of Cyrene, in Libya, reads: “Destroy the Idols”. Islamists, including Islamic State militants, see such pre-Islamic structures as sacrilege.
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Graffiti sprayed last year on the ruins of Cyrene, in Libya, reads: “Destroy the Idols”. Islamists, including Islamic State militants, see such pre-Islamic structures as sacrilege.
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.
The Ukip leader travelled to Washington to speak at right-wing conference CPAC – but was placed bottom of the bill, after most of the delegates had left.
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.
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.
Cameroon’s army says it has freed 24 of the hostages kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram at the weekend – an attack in which 80 people were taken including 50 children.
‘American Sniper’ directed by Clint Eastwood is the story of US Navy Seal Chris Kyle’s four tours of Iraq, and his more than 200 so-called “kills.” But was he a ‘true American hero?’
The deliberate targeting of so many children has caused outrage across the world. And it’s part of an increasing – and horrifying – trend.
The al-Sweady inquiry finds that British troops mistreated nine Iraqi detainees while in custody, but dismisses claims of murder and torture as “deliberate lies”.
Military widows who lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan will be able to marry again without losing their pensions, under new plans announced today.
The Iraqi Yazidi MP Vian Dakhil, who wept as she exhorted the world to save her people from Islamic State militants, wins a prestigious award for her courage.