Jon Snow
The lure of the 'very bad man'
Very bad men and cults that go bad: Jon Snow blogs on Gaddafi and the green that turned to black, tinged with the red blood of those who opposed his dictatorship.
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9/11: changed perspectives since 2006
In 2006 we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. How have political and military developments since then changed our view of what happened in 2001?
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Last Briton in Guantanamo on hunger strike
Cleared for release in 2007, British resident Shaker Aamer is on hunger strike as lawyers say he was routinely beaten on days his legal team was due to meet him.
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How Channel 4 News reported 9/11
First a newsflash, then the seven o’clock programme and a special extra bulletin: how Channel 4 News covered the worst terror strikes in history, and Jon Snow recalls his visit to Ground Zero.
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‘Survival and identity’ emerge in debris of 9/11
What survives in a catastrophic terror strike? Scraps of paper, twisted girders, a flag? Channel 4 News examines a collection of artefacts from Ground Zero brought together by artist Francesc Torres.
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9/11 ten years on: British families remember
In a Channel 4 News exclusive, UK families affected by 9/11 and the war on terror tell their stories. As filmmaker Tim Lawton writes, they are united by loss and how they have lived with that loss.
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Jon Snow
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Gary Gibbon
Obama mania: Brits on board with US President
A new Channel 4 News/You Gov poll suggests that Brits love President Barack Obama as much as they hated President George W Bush, Gary Gibbon blogs.
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Blair admits regret over deaths in Iraq
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is heckled at the Iraq Inquiry as he admits “deep” regret for the loss of life during the war, and says force may be needed to tackle the “looming challenge” of Iran.
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Iraq war: Blair admits ‘inconsistency’ over legal advice
Tony Blair has revealed he disregarded some of the legal guidance given to him by his top adviser in the run-up to the Iraq war. The former PM concedes there was “inconsistency”.
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Iraq: ‘evidence for criminal case against Blair’ says expert
A leading QC tells Channel 4 News that there is enough evidence for the International Criminal Court to mount a case against Tony Blair. The former PM has faced the Iraq Inquiry for the second time.
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Jon Snow
Too late to put the radical genie back in the bottle?
The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.
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CIA drone strikes: a legal war?
A UN senior official tells Channel 4 News if CIA personnel are operating drone strikes in Pakistan, they could be prosecuted for murder and war crimes if humanitarian laws are violated.
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Nato leaders expected to agree on missile defence shield
David Cameron is joining leaders at a Nato summit in Lisbon to discuss and sign an agreement to build a defensive shield in Europe against ballistic missile attacks.
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Bush ‘could face investigation over waterboard comments’
As George W Bush defends the use of waterboarding against terrorist suspects, a human rights lawyer tells Channel 4 News the former US president could potentially face torture a investigation.
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Bush: ‘waterboarding’ prevented UK attacks
As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.
