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Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
New photos are released of then US President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney co-ordinating the White House’s response to the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Sir John Chilcot, the chairman of the inquiry into the Iraq war, provokes controversy after saying his report will not be published until after the May election – six years after he began his work.
A “brutal” CIA programme of torture was completely ineffective at yielding information that could have helped the security services stop an attack on US citizens, a long-awaited report shows.
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
Volunteers who fight alongside Iraq’s security forces will be given 750,000 Dinars (£375) per month, the country’s prime minister says, as battles rage for control of the country’s largest oil field.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum charts the origins of crisis in Iraq – from the ousting of Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, through the consolidation of Shia power, and resulting in more bloodshed.
The entity of Iraq – invented by Britain – cannot hold, and the utter foolhardiness of 2003’s Shock and Awe adventure has been exposed.
US marine commander Elliot Ackerman tells Channel 4 News there is no appetite to intervene in Iraq but former ambassador James Jeffrey says Iraq is sinking “slowly under the control of terrorism”.
After months of deadlock, finally there’s some progress on the journey towards publication of the Chilcot report.
Former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates tells Channel 4 News that a number of “serious mistakes” were made in Iraq but says: “‘we accomplished our mission”.
Former senior members of the US military and political establishment accuse the country’s most senior officials of contributing to the spread of torture.
Margaret Thatcher was a controversial figure at home and abroad. So how has her death been received across the world?
If Washington was conspicuous by its eagerness to intervene in Iraq it is equally conspicuous by its reluctance to do so in Syria. The words bitten and shy come to mind.
Despite years in the limelight as president of the US, George W Bush is now proving rather elusive- even in his home state of Texas, finds Matt Frei.