How is the Iraq war related to the wider war on terror? The question is of acute political saliency to George W Bush and Tony Blair, though the pressures of
Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, al-Qaida and its often loosely affiliated networks have mounted many attacks across the world. The range, persistence and scale of these incidents send
The multiple bombings in London on 7 July were almost certainly perpetrated by a group allied to the al-Qaida movement. They were intended to kill and maim many people and
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran on 24 June is not an easy event for Washington to digest. The more convinced neo-conservatives find it especially difficult. The
The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, the subject of last weeks column in this series, is starting to attract more media attention. The destruction of a United States CH-46
The United States ambassador to Kabul, scheduled for transfer to a similar post in Baghdad, escaped assassination by a whisker this week. As Iraqs insurgents respond to the international
Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks about the Iraq war on 14 June 2006 combined a widely reported admission that the security situation was no better than when the Saddam Hussein regime
The devastating violence of recent weeks in Iraq temporarily abated during the two-week Operation Lightning that saw widespread United States security operations and the deployment of 40,000 Iraqi troops
The gravity of security conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan seems finally to have impacted on the George W Bush administration, with reports this week of a serious rethink of the
The first three weeks of May was one of the worst periods for violence since the Iraq war began over two years ago; and the pattern has continued into the
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A recent spectacular aerial photograph of Africas highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, shows the peak very largely devoid of ice and snow, possibly for the first time in
