Hassan Rouhani – confounding expectations and inspiring rare hope
We may have failed to engage with him first time round, but this time, despite all the hurdles and pitfalls, 2013 could prove to have been Hassan Rouhani’s hour, with more to come.
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A 10-year-old girl, who was detained in Afghanistan for wearing explosives, says she was forced to wear a suicide jacket by her Taliban commander brother.
Thousands of people are fleeing the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which has been occupied by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. “It has turned into a ghost town,” a local resident says.
It was the iconic city which symbolised so much of what went wrong with the American occupation of Iraq. Now, Fallujah is once again a key battleground. Lindsey Hilsum reports.
We may have failed to engage with him first time round, but this time, despite all the hurdles and pitfalls, 2013 could prove to have been Hassan Rouhani’s hour, with more to come.
From the ‘fiscal cliff’ from which America never fell, to an Iraq inquiry that is still to report back. Here are seven things that were expected to happen in 2013 – but did not.
America’s most wanted whistleblower has made the world think about privacy and the boundaries of intelligence gathering – which is why Krishnan Guru-Murthy has chosen him as his person of 2013.
Crossword enthusiasts are celebrating the puzzle’s 100th birthday. So what is the secret of its lasting appeal? A cryptic compiler – about half as old as crosswords – gives us some insights.
As military top brass warn of an obsession with “exquisite” equipment and the RAF opens up UK drone HQ, Channel 4 News asks if the next generation of battles will be fought not by man, but by machine.
Two ex-servicemen, one a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan once based at Woolwich barracks, firebombed a mosque in “an act of retribution” for the attack on Lee Rigby.
The guilty verdict may be no surprise, but the brutal murder of Lee Rigby certainly took police unawares, even though his killers had been known to the security services for some years.
As Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are found guilty of murdering Lee Rigby, the radical cleric who was Adebolajo’s mentor after he converted tells Channel 4 News he is “proud” of what he did.
It was a weird feeling, standing there in my suit and tie at the edge of the virtual battle space. Because the asymmetry of power is massively dramatized in this drone ‘cockpit’.
As the trial of two men accused of killing British soldier Lee Rigby nears its close, the judge tells the jury that a charge of conspiracy to murder a police officer has been dropped.
David Cameron agreed that British troops are returning from Afghanistan with their “mission accomplished”. But he won’t be thrilled with the headlines his answer has spawned.
At least 36 people, including children, have died after Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised “barrel bombs” on the northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists say.