Mosul, said by some to be modern Iraq’s second and by others its third most populous city, was originally awarded…
Continue reading →Welcome to Kurdistan (while it lasts)
Iraq’s Kurds want full independence from Baghdad and all the trappings of statehood, but as Charles Glass reports from Irbil,…
Continue reading →America Declares the battle for Fallujah is won. But in Mosul, mortar attacks continue
By Charles Glass in Mosul The mortars flew into the governor’s compound from the neighbouring houses. They found an oil…
Continue reading →‘You can have patience or you can have carnage’
Kabul, since 1776 the nominal if forever ignored capital of Afghanistan, hides itself within thousands of forbidding walls. Mounds of…
Continue reading →US and Kurds attack insurgents in Mosul
Kurdish forces and Iraqi Arab insurgents exchanged fire yesterday in the latest phase of the battle to control Mosul in…
Continue reading →Insurgents take fight north and spread fear among Kurds
By Charles Glass in Suleimania, northern Iraq With American forces claiming to have subdued most of Fallujah, insurgents have moved…
Continue reading →Violence grips Iraq as Fallujah battle rages
By Kim Sengupta in Camp Dogwood and Charles Glass in Suleimania, Iraq Waves of devastating violence swept through Iraq yesterday…
Continue reading →America failing test of history as offensive compared to terror tactics of pariah states
Muslim fundamentalist insurgents seeking to topple the government are holed up in a conservative city with little sympathy for secularism…
Continue reading →Comment: America Could Have Saved Ken Bigley
Kidnappers have beheaded another foreign captive in Iraq. For Ken Bigley, there was hope that he would avoid the fate…
Continue reading →Negotiation is the only way to free the hostages
Tony Blair may have put his finger on the obstacle to freeing Ken Bigley from his captors in Iraq when…
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