Lindsey Hilsum
From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
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Islamic State fighting flattens Saddam’s tomb
The tomb of Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein is severely damaged in heavy clashes between militants from the Islamic State militants and Iraqi security forces in Tikrit.
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Would Iraq be more stable under Saddam Hussein?
The scale of the crisis in Iraq has led many to wonder what was once unpalatable: would the country be more stable if Saddam Hussein had remained in power?
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Sentenced to death: the public face of Saddam's regime
Tariq Aziz, for two decades the public face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, was condemned to death for “persecution of the religious parties”, notably the Dawa, the Shi’ite Muslim party which now governs Iraq.
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‘You have no humanity if you don’t feel something inside you, just hurt when you see that’ – education secretary on Ukraine war
The education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi Kurd who left his home country when he was just 11, his family fearing for their lives under Saddam Hussein.
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Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of Covid complications at 84
Colin Powell, the first Black person to become America’s Secretary of State, has died at 84, from Covid-related complications.
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Does Afghanistan withdrawal mean the end of US nation building?
After imperial Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has now seen off America, supposedly the world’s mightiest military.
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Did UK government know about Iraqi invasion of Kuwait before BA plane landed there?
In the summer of 1990, more than 350 passengers boarded flight BA149 at Heathrow. The plane was bound for Kuala Lumpur, but never made it that far. Instead it made a refuelling stopover in Kuwait City, just as Iraqi troops invaded in the first Gulf War. The passengers were held for months as “human shields”…
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Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to visit Iraq
The Pope has arrived in Iraq for an historic three-day visit to the country, surrounded by tight security.
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FactCheck: Trump’s excuse for Russia comments doesn’t make sense
The President’s made a rare admission of error, after appearing to accept Vladimir Putin’s word over his own intelligence agencies.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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FactCheck: what do we learn from the Blair-Bush letters?
Letters written by Tony Blair for the eyes of the US president only have now been declassified. What do they tell us about the Iraq War?
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Chilcot Inquiry: Blair – ‘I will be with you, whatever’
Tony Blair told US President George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever” eight months before parliament approved the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot inquiry has found.
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FactCheck: has Donald Trump been rewriting history again?
Donald Trump is taking fire from US fact-checkers over dubious claims that he was against the US-led invasion of Iraq from the outset.
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Tony Benn vs son Hilary – to bomb or not to bomb?
In 1998 Tony Benn spoke passionately against bombing Iraq. In 2015, his son Hilary’s rousing speech to MPs backed bombing raids over Syria. On both occasions Jeremy Corbyn was sitting near by.
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Gary Gibbon
Syria: is ‘70,000 troops’ the new ’45 minutes’?
David Cameron may have been at his most diplomatic to persuade MPs to back airstrikes on Syria, but his claims over the scale of Syrian opposition ground forces have raised doubts.
