Leaving Camp Liberty

Pooyan Tamimi Arab 11 November 2010
An interview with Michael (pseudonym), US citizen, born in 1978, who went to work in Iraq in April 2010 for a company taking care of logistics for the US. After three months at three military bases, he concluded that it would be better for the Americans to leave

Obama reaches out to Muslims on visit to Indonesia

Rukeyya Khan 9 November 2010
Obama calls for building bridges with Muslim world. Pro-democratic parties concede defeat in Myanmar. Afghans upbeat about future, according to poll. Troops at Britain's 'Abu Ghraib' trial may be guilty of war crimes. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

Bombing in Istanbul injures dozens on day that PKK ceasefire expires

Daniel C Giacopelli 1 November 2010
Bombing in Istanbul main square injures dozens and rattles nerves. Nato to reduce its Kosovo force by half. Iraqi hostage situation ends in bloody tragedy with at least 52 killed. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

The harvest of war: from pain to gain

Paul Rogers 28 October 2010
A number of initiatives around the world, for example in Bosnia and Guatemala, seeks to record the details of every victim of violent conflict. The new revelations of civilian deaths in Iraq could advance a project whose wider ambition is to change warfare itself.

Blackwater still in the dock, but for how long?

Luke Heighton 27 October 2010
Blackwater trials failing to produce convictions. Yemen resource conflict highlighted in two reports. Arms thought to be destined for Nigerian Delta intercepted. Karzai presses ahead with ban on private military companies, drawing mixed response. All this and more in today's security briefing.

Former Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, sentenced to death

Rukeyya Khan 26 October 2010
Former Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, sentenced to death. Ex-‘child soldier’ pleads guilty at Guantanamo. UK police receive terror training. Transparency international ranks war-torn countries as 'most corrupt'. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

New reports allege extensive Iranian involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Daniel C Giacopelli 25 October 2010
Further accusations of Tehran’s deep involvement in two ongoing wars. Tibetan student unrest over proposed language policy causes headaches for Beijing. Violence continues unabated in the streets of Karachi. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

Iraq's big deal: the coming national unity government

Mohammed Hussainy 18 October 2010
Faced with the problem of how to share the offices of power between rival blocs, Iraqi politicians are rearranging the constitutional weights to achieve a balance of power acceptable to parliament's largest factions. Will the result be unity or stasis, asks Mohammed Hussainy

The World, not just America, is responsible for Iraq

Ali Al-Mawlawi 8 September 2010
Iraq’s economic and humanitarian recovery cannot succeed so long as its political conundrums remain inadequately addressed by the international community.

America in Iraq: power, hubris, change

Paul Rogers 2 September 2010
The zealous attitudes and fevered misjudgments that drove United States policy towards Iraq in 2003 could yet have a second life over Iran.

US declares an end to combat operations in Iraq

Rukeyya Khan 1 September 2010
President Obama declares an end to combat operations in Iraq. Israeli settlers to resume settlement building in Hebron ahead of peace talks. Pakistan blocks British military aid in flood relief efforts. All this and more in today's briefing.

UN mission fails to protect civilians in the DRC

Josephine Whitaker 26 August 2010
The UN mission in the DRC is failing to protect civilians, as it emerges that 200 women were raped in a systematic attack in North Kivu earlier month. A US official alleges that Taliban forces have threatened foreign aid workers in Pakistan. A wave of attacks across Iraq raise questions about Iraqi stability. Human rights groups allege that state anti-terrorism drive violates human rights in Yemen. All this and more in today’s briefing...

Iraq’s future hanging by a thread

Zaid Al-Ali 18 August 2010
Iraqis now have greater physical security, though violence continues and politics are stalemated. But the years of conflict have corroded trust, entrenched sectarian identities, undermined livelihoods, and ravaged the environment. Zaid Al-Ali, travelling through Iraq, finds a society under intense stress whose human and national bonds are frayed - but far from broken.

Flood-ravaged Pakistan faces economic, political and security fall-out

Rukeyya Khan 18 August 2010
Flood-ravaged Pakistan faces economic, political and security fall-out. Deadly attacks rock Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Afghan’s protest ‘civilian’ deaths. IDF accused of systematic abuse by rights groups. Blast in the Caucasuses. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

Al-Qaida’s business jihad

Paul Rogers 12 August 2010
The failed assault on a Japanese oil supertanker is, alongside developments in Iraq and Yemen, a signal of the al-Qaida movement’s protean challenge.

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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