The lies of two Iraqi spies were central to the claim - at the heart of the UK and US decision to go to war in Iraq - that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. But even before the fighting started, intelligence from highly-placed sources was available suggesting he did not, Panorama has learned. Six months before the invasion, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair warned the country about
More than half the British public believe the decision to invade Iraq was wrong and more than a fifth believe Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal, according to a poll conducted to mark the 10th anniversary of the conflict. A majority (56%) of the public believe the war has increased the risk of a terrorist attack on Britain. More than half, (53%), of those questioned think the invasion wa
Algerian Army vehicles on Sunday near a remote town in southeastern Algeria where hostages were taken in a four-day ordeal.Credit...Anis Belghoul/Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali — Algerian officials said Sunday that security forces combing the scene of a bloody four-day hostage siege had discovered many more corpses, some badly burned, at a gas-production complex deep in the Sahara. They also said f
One eyewitness said vehicles were being stopped and searched when shooting broke out A checkpoint shooting in eastern Afghanistan has taken the US military's death toll in the war past 2,000. A US soldier and contractor were killed while three Afghan soldiers died and several were injured. The new deaths occurred on Saturday in Wardak province. The international mission, Isaf, initially said the s
An orderly at the Emergency Surgical Center for War Victims in Kabul with a victim after a suicide bomber killed and injured scores during an attack on a Shiite holy day in December.Credit...Pieter Ten Hoopen/Agence Vu, for The New York Times Several miles west of Kabul, the village Qala-e Naw sits deep in the barren foothills of barrener mountains that are perennially half-sunk in cloud. The ruin
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Afghan special police officers fired at militants on Sunday in Kabul, where embassies and the Parliament were among the targets.Credit...Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck three eastern provinces as well, in a complex attack clearly designed to
Pakistan has demolished the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden in the north-western city of Abbottabad. Work began late on Saturday. Bulldozers and pneumatic machinery could be heard as the demolition continued. The al-Qaeda leader was shot dead at the compound in the garrison town on 2 May 2011. He had been hiding there for several years. No official reason for the demolition has bee
Nice, France ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as “undeliverable,” and the few that I recei
A soldier killed in a NATO strike was buried Sunday. The foreign minister said a “deep sense of rage” was felt across Pakistan.Credit...Mohammad Kashif/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KABUL, Afghanistan — The political fallout from a NATO airstrike in Pakistan that was operated out of Afghanistan and killed at least two dozen Pakistani soldiers became clearer on Sunday, as Pakistan seethed ove
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