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Iraq

  • 21 Feb 2017

    Isis suicide bomber is former Guantanamo detainee

    A photograph released by the Islamic State group of a British suicide bomber in Mosul shows British ex-Guantanamo detainee Jamal Al-Harith.

  • 15 Jan 2017
    3m

    Iraqi army takes Mosul University

    Iraqi troops backed by the United States have siezed control of Mosul university from so-called Islamic State militants.

  • 9 Jan 2017
    3m

    Iraqi army bids to recapture Mosul

    The three-month battle to recapture the city of Mosul, the last major stronghold of Islamic State militants in Iraq, is gathering pace.

  • 31 Dec 2016
    2m

    Baghdad explosion leaves 28 dead

    Two explosions have killed at least 28 in a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.  The so-called Islamic state say their combatants targeted shoppers in the Shia district with a car bomb followed by a suicide bomber.

  • 24 Nov 2016
    2m

    Truck bomb kills 100 pilgrims in Iraq

    In Iraq, up to 100 people have been killed in a suicide truck bomb attack on a petrol station near the city of Hilla. It’s believed that most of the victims were Shia pilgrims – many from Iran.

  • 19 Nov 2016
    4m

    The battle for Mosul – one month on

    Isis has been accused of committing war crimes as it tries to resist the assault on Mosul which started a month ago. The Chief Executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring, has just come back from visiting camps housing those who have managed to flee the city and its surrounding villages.

  • 6 Jul 2016
    Gary Gibbon

    Chilcot Inquiry: stinging criticism as families still grieve

    Sir John Chilcot’s statement, just delivered, was starker than the report itself in its criticism of the Iraq War.

  • 6 Jul 2016

    Chilcot Inquiry: Blair – ‘I will be with you, whatever’

    Tony Blair told US President George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever” eight months before parliament approved the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot inquiry has found.

  • 22 Jan 2016

    Cameron to clamp down on ‘spurious’ claims against UK forces

    The Prime Minister says he wants to stamp out an “industry trying to profit” from baseless claims against serving military personnel and veterans.

  • 4 Jan 2016
    9m

    The origins of Isis

    Behind the endless stream of propaganda, who is really pulling the strings of the so-called Islamic State? We examine the roots of Isis, who really holds the power, and the reality of the self-declared caliphate that they don’t want the world to see.

  • 4 Jan 2016

    UK security services examine IS murder video

    The UK security services are examining an Islamic State murder video featuring a man and a young boy with British accents.

  • 30 Dec 2015

    FactCheck: who were the victims of the ‘Islamic State’ in 2015?

    By Patrick Worrall

    The attacks in France dominated the headlines, while the media were accused of ignoring other victims of the so-called Islamic State’s global campaign of terror.

  • 29 Dec 2015

    Islamic State group “will be defeated in 2016”

    Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says government forces are planning to liberate Mosul, the group’s last stronghold in Iraq, after taking control of Ramadi from the insurgents.

  • 22 Dec 2015

    Iraq: army battles Islamic State in Ramadi

    Iraq’s armed forces say they have fought their way to the centre of Ramadi, where Islamic State militants are holed up.

  • 3 Dec 2015

    Tony Benn vs son Hilary – to bomb or not to bomb?

    In 1998 Tony Benn spoke passionately against bombing Iraq. In 2015, his son Hilary’s rousing speech to MPs backed bombing raids over Syria. On both occasions Jeremy Corbyn was sitting near by.

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