Turkey’s government forced to admit victims of bombing were not Kurdish separatist fighters The donkeys had been sent across Turkey’s south-eastern border with Iraq to ferry vats of smuggled diesel and cigarettes. On Thursday when they came back it was with bodies wrapped in carpets lashed to their sides:...
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Baghdad bomb attack leaves scores dead
Soon after the pullout of US troops, an atrocity that has killed scores of people leaves an unravelling nation in deeper despair In the wake of the pullout of American troops, Iraq had been braced for a new atrocity. It arrived on Thursday with devastating familiarity. Just before 9am,...
Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos
Head of unit describes loose controls around databases from which Manning is alleged to have downloaded military secrets A shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for allegedly transferring the largest trove of state secrets in American...
Manning hearing opens amid tight security
Charge sheet includes 23 counts against the WikiLeaks suspect, including that he knowingly ‘gave intelligence to the enemy’• Follow tweets from the trial Bradley Manning has been seen in public for the first time since he was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 for allegedly leaking hundreds of thousands...
US exit from Iraq ‘not a withdrawal’
Iraqi people greet pullout ceremony with ambivalence mixed with concern over an uncertain future There was no triumphalism and certainly no shock or awe. The end of the war in Iraq was subdued and simple: a small band playing as the US forces flag was furled with 200 troops...
US exit from Iraq ‘not a withdrawal’
Iraqi people greet pullout ceremony with ambivalence mixed with concern over an uncertain future There was no triumphalism and certainly no shock or awe. The end of the war in Iraq was subdued and simple: a small band playing as the US forces flag was furled with 200 troops...
Barack Obama declares Iraq war a success
President told an audience of soldiers at Fort Bragg that the final pullout after nearly nine years of conflict is an ‘historic’ moment Barack Obama marked an end to a war he once described as “dumb” by declaring the conflict in Iraq a success and saying the last US...
Syria holds elections amid crackdown
• Clashes between Syrian defectors and army spread• Low turn-out expected in local vote as opposition calls for boycott• Speculation of Homs assault mounts ahead of ‘deadline’• Read the latest summary 8.46am: Good morning. Here’s a round-up of developments across the region. Syria • Local elections are being held...
Al-Qaida will keep trying to attack us, Barack Obama tells Americans
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, as the nation prepared to mark 9/11 anniversary. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters President Barack Obama warned that al-Qaida was likely to strike the US again as America prepared to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11. “Make no mistake, they will...
The Comic Strip reunited
“I’m getting too old for this nonsense,” sighs Robbie Coltrane, as he adjusts his stick-on moustache, straightens his lapels and draws himself up for the camera, clearly not meaning a single word of it. The sound of Rik Mayall exuberantly working on a scene drifts down the corridor towards us, and Coltrane grins, clearly...