President Obama, pre-occupied with extricating the USA from his predecessor's wars, has little stomach for military action in Syria.
Mr Blair gave off the aura of a wise consultant giving pro-bono advice with Olympian detachment and objectivity. He'd waived his normal fee and was happy to help.
As former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry, a protester bursts in and accuses him of being a war criminal, while he denies ever agreeing a deal with Rupert Murdoch.
Former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics. Follow the live blog and add your voice.
He is in charge of the UK at one of the toughest times in recent history, yet he likes to wind down whenever he can. Is David Cameron's tendency to "chillax" good for him - and the country?
Ex-Daily Mirror political editor and spin doctor Alastair Campbell returns to the Leveson inquiry to discuss politicians and their relationship with the "putrid" media he now distances himself from.
Andy Coulson attended meetings of the National Security Council as David Cameron's director of communications when he was not vetted and "may have" had unsupervised access to top secret documents.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
After Lord Ahmed was accused of offering a £10m "bounty" for the capture of US President Barack Obama, the peer tells Channel 4 News the allegations are a "complete pack of lies".
With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country's continued presence in the country.