Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio journalist: born Toronto, Ontario 29 July 1938; staff, ABC News 1964-2005, international anchor, World…
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Back to the old hacienda
Something bit me. In fact, lots of things were gnawing at me. Their chewing progressed up my leg to my…
Continue reading →Abu Said Abu Rish – Obituary
Abu Said Aburish Grand old man of the TIME Beirut bureau 04 May 2005 Abu Said Aburish became part of…
Continue reading →Bashar Assad: The Syrian Sphinx
When Syria’s young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater…
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 →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…
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