"I heard him shouting 'I didn't want to kill her'"
Neda Agha Soltan, who was shot on July 20th during street protests in Tehran, has become a symbol of protest. Today thousands went to the cemetery where she’s buried south of Tehran to mourn
Harrowing stories of Iranian protesters
For weeks we’ve been trying to find people who have fled Iran after being arrested or injured in the demonstrations. It’s been difficult – not because such people do not exist, but
Royal Navy cast adrift in Iraq?
This is the way the Brit mission ends. No bang; just the whimper of a procedural delay in the Iraqi parliament. After six years, the number of British troops in Iraq has gone from 46,000 to zero.
What's the endgame in Afghanistan?
It is very hard today to read the foreign secretary’s new strategy for Afghanistan. The aims of Nato are laudable. They are invariably necessary and they are vital for the security of
Time running out for Aung San Suu Kyi
It crawls on, more a display of power over an individual than a legal process, one which people look to to guage quite how confident a military dictatorship feels. Aung San Suu Kyi today heard her
India’s great wall – the world’s deadliest frontier
Fortress India is building a new fence along the Bangladeshi border and over a thousand miles have been completed so far. The project, which began in 2000, is inspired by Israel’s wall in the
Iran: tens of thousands gather to hear Rafsanjani speak
Iran’s opposition supporters have a way of turning things upside-down and back-to-front in the Islamic Republic. Many of them are secular, yet they go onto their balconies every night to
Switching tactics on Somalia?
I am told the Americans are in the midst of a major rethink of their policy towards Somalia, as fighting within the last few days threatens to topple the government in Mogadishu, such as it
Is G8 fiddling while Rome burns?
Just what has been achieved here? The summit’s warm words on climate change were criticised by the UN secretary-general himself yesterday, who said they did not go far enough. China and India now
African nations and the UN join the G8 talks
I am losing count of the Gs. Yesterday we had the G8 + G5 (including China and India) + 1. The 1 was Egypt. Today we have the G8 + 9 + 7, which includes African nations and international
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