Blog posts tagged "Iraq"

December 16, 2011 1:33 pm 4 Comments

I first met Christopher Hitchens when he was driving a jeep across northern Iraq 20 years ago and stopped to offer me a lift. He talked for hours, about anything and everything, and the time whizzed by as we negotiated precarious mountain passes.

November 16, 2011 1:08 pm No Comments

MI6 in particular has suffered some hard reputational knocks and doesn't like it. Mr Hague is trying to shape the debate about it in the media, by giving those who write and comment on it a better idea of how it works, as Jonathan Rugman reports.

October 14, 2011 4:09 pm 3 Comments

The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK's record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.

December 21, 2010 8:48 pm 3 Comments

Many people in Iraq tell Lindsey Hilsum that there is no future for Christianity in the country - meaning an ancient civilisation could be wiped out.

December 14, 2010 9:22 pm 1 Comment

Father Christmas was dancing outside the clothes shop. A gaggle of small children were watching, entranced. When the electricity was switched off, he drooped and they drifted away. All over Ankawa, the Christian enclave in Erbil, you can see signs of Christmas: outside one house we saw an orange tree with tinsel and baubles hanging amongst the fruits.

October 26, 2010 1:25 pm 5 Comments

Tariq Aziz, for two decades the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, was condemned to death for "persecution of the religious parties", notably the Dawa, the Shi'ite Muslim party which now governs Iraq.

August 19, 2010 4:45 pm No Comments

The last US combat brigade has left Iraq, pulling troops out of the country two weeks earlier than President Obama's deadline. Channel 4 News's Tim Lambon, who was there the day US forces rolled into Baghdad, looks at the rapid drawdown, and Iraq's uncertain future.

August 17, 2010 10:53 am 1 Comment

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on how today's Baghdad bomb attack is the latest sign that insurgents are seeking to exploit the political void caused by Iraq's inconclusive election.

June 17, 2010 11:04 am 6 Comments

Jonathan Rugman blogs on Kurdistan's growing confidence in its economic future as questions remain about Iraq's political deadlock in Baghdad.

April 27, 2010 2:23 pm 3 Comments

Jonathan Rugman blogs on what has been described as the PowerPoint presentations of all presentations - on Iraq and Afghanistan.