Lindsey Hilsum
Labour and the Tories say they’ll spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence, as a Nato commitment. Both are pledged to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid. Why? To what end?
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.
Plaid Cymru’s Elfyn Llwyd says the ongoing wait for the Chilcot report is an “expensive farce and an affront to democracy” in a Westminster debate over the inquiry’s delays.
Sir John Chilcot, the chairman of the inquiry into the Iraq war, provokes controversy after saying his report will not be published until after the May election – six years after he began his work.
Kylie Morris
US President Barack Obama authorizes targeted air strikes in Iraq to prevent an ‘act of genocide’ against some 40,000 religious minorities trapped in a remote mountain area.
Kurdish ministers boycott the Iraq government after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accuses them of harbouring Islamic insurgents in Iraqi Kurdistan. So is peace in Iraq now impossible?
Sunni militants seize an Iraqi crossing on the border with Syria after a day-long battle in which they killed some 30 Iraqi troops, security officials claim.
Kylie Morris
The dramatic advance by Isis in Iraq has sparked a blame game in Washington – but it’s what Barack Obama does next is what really matters.
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?
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.
Kylie Morris
US President Obama may prefer a political response to what is happening in Iraq – but whether by diplomatic or military means, he must act quickly.
Cathy Newman
Why, when insurgents are rampaging through Iraq, were British journalists permitted to ask John Kerry and William Hague only two questions at a press conference today?
Jon Snow
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”.
The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war finally strikes a deal on publishing sensitive conversations between the UK and US leaders, clearing the way for the inquiry’s long-awaited report to be released.
