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Which world capital is most likely to provide a breakthrough in the global response to the violence in Syria? Some would say Moscow, but I am plumping for Ankara.
Alex Thomson
It is a matter of some regret that the Syrian government press conference yesterday was held so late in the day that I could not be there. Clearly it was some spectacle. Not since the dying days of the Saddam regime in Baghdad and the primetime performances of “Comical Ali” have we heard such arrant nonsense coming from a government mouthpiece. In fact, several government mouthpieces.
A year after US special forces shot dead the world’s most wanted terrorist, bin Laden’s death has sparked a furious political row. A risky tactic by President Obama – now could it backfire?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy describes meeting some of the heroes of post-war Iraq as Unreported World gains exclusive access to the Baghdad bomb squad.
More than 20 bombs hit cities and towns across Iraq, killing at least 36 and wounding almost 150, but analysts tell Channel 4 News the situation is not deteriorating.
As France swiftly expels two radical Islamists, Channel 4 News looks at why the British government is finding it so difficult to remove radical cleric Abu Qatada.
The story of Libya’s revolution demanded to be told, says Lindsey Hilsum, who has written Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution.
Several bombs go off in mainly Shia Muslim areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad leaving at least 67 people dead and many injured. The attacks come as sectarian tensions escalate in Iraq.
Days after the US withdrawal from Iraq, a series of blasts kill at least 63 people in the first big attack on Baghdad since a crisis erupted between the Shia-led government and Sunni rivals.
Iraq faces an uncertain future as the last US military units hand over control to local forces, amid continuing political uncertainty and sectarian violence.
I first met Christopher Hitchens when he was driving a jeep across northern Iraq 20 years ago and stopped to offer me a lift. He talked for hours, about anything and everything, and the time whizzed by as we negotiated precarious mountain passes.
Christopher Hitchens, whose writings have illuminated political debate in Britain and the US for three decades, has died aged 62. Jonathan Rugman looks back on his life.
Jon Snow
I have never been more frightened in any theatre of war. To be on the ground was to be adorned in a flak jacket and to feel very personally threatened at all times. I was there perhaps a dozen times. I heard the car bombs, saw the tell tale plumes of black smoke rising into the sky.
An “al-Qaeda sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City, as well as US troops returning home, is arrested on terrorism-related charges.
Matt Frei
Nothing creates finality like the image of the dead tyrant. But even from his shallow grave Gaddafi will cast a long shadow over his people, writes Washington Correspondent Matt Frei.