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David Owen: What makes a dictator pack his bags?
This new form of constrained interventionism has been the inevitable consequence of US and UK failure in Iraq. It is of long-term importance that China and Russia did not block the resolution and that the US wanted to be…
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Leading article: The not-so-silly season
The edited highlights of August news stories from the past quarter-century gives us Hurricane Katrina, 2005; flash floods in Cornwall, 2004; UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello killed by Baghdad bomb, 2003; Omagh bomb, 1998; death… -
Military renews attacks on Kurds
The Turkish raids, the first against rebels holed up in the mountains of northern Iraq in more than a year, marked a stark escalation of the year-old conflict after the collapse of efforts towards a negotiated settlement. -
David Lister: Comedy doesn't travel… you need to be in the room to get it
At present it doesn't look like it will transfer to the West End or beyond, which is a shame, as it is quite extraordinary in its revelations about what happened and what was said in Tony Blair's inner circle, and indeed… - View iraq visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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Drink-driver jailed for crash death
Elgie, an Iraq veteran, had drunk five alcopops the previous night, and only went to bed at 2am before going to work. Ex-soldier Nicola Elgie, 27, had gone through a red light when she ran over Stephen Rutter, 35, in… -
A Deniable Death, By Gerald Seymour
MI6 have in their sights a bomb-maker in Iraq, a man whose assassination is a matter of urgency. But tracking him down will be far from easy in the untamed territory of Southern Iraq, an area which does not lend itself to… -
Leading article: Restraint remains the West's best policy
The US learnt to its cost how combustible the ethnic and sectarian mix in Iraq was once a repressive dictatorship was toppled. Yesterday, the United Nations suggested that the abuses perpetrated by the Damascus regime against… -
60 die as insurgents target Iraqi forces in wave of bombings
The bombings appeared to serve a double purpose, underlining both the extent to which security provided by Iraq's own forces can be breached and the risk of further attacks if any US troops remain after the due withdrawal date. -
60 killed in series of Iraq bomb blasts
Violence has dropped considerably in Iraq from the heyday of the war when such bloody bombings were an almost daily occurrence. But the persistence of the violence in Iraq, albeit at a lower level, underscores the ability of… -
Fighting Britain's warring gangs is a better use of the £14bn Afghan…
The former Treasury spokesman said: "We have wasted £14bn on going to war in Afghanistan, and we are losing hundreds of lives in a futile war propping up a failed state – already far more than the £8bn spent on going to…
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Heads Up: Woodstock Literary Festival
From the opening talk on the future of Iraq with Colonel Tim Collins to a black-tie literary dinner with Terry Wogan, it's a varied programme. Elevator Pitch Boutique bookishness at beautiful Blenheim Palace. -
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World, By Kwasi Kwarteng
The men who painted the map of the globe pink made great Boys' Own heroes – General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum, Lawrence of Arabia, who was largely responsible for making the new states of Jordan and Iraq pro-British… -
BBC man dies years after inhaling mustard gas during Iran-Iraq war
Cyril Benford, 78, died almost 27 years after travelling to the border between the two countries for Newsnight in 1984, an inquest heard. In a statement written by Mr Benford before he died on 16 January, he said an Iranian… - View iraq visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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Robert Fisk: The immortality of a great, if flawed, historian
No serious observer," he writes, "who has combed through the accounts of meetings at which the decision to go to war [in Iraq in 2003] was taken has reported the slightest evidence to suggest the real motive was to install… -
Explosion halts Iran gas imports to Turkey
Kurdish rebels have attacked pipelines close to the border with Iraq and Iran in the past as part of their campaign for autonomy. The governor's office for Agri province, where the explosion occurred late yesterday, says…