01/08/2020 - 12:10am

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

25.12

For Iraq’s Christians, this year might be their last Sixteen years after the disastrous invasion, and two years after ISIS were defeated, the community faces its end

Reine Hanna

27.11

Why would the US want George W Bush back? The rehabilitation of the prodigal president says much about the state of American politics

Christopher Rhodes

10.10

What did the ancient Mesopotamians ever do for us? From depression cures to egotistical Trumpian kings and angry customer complaints, we can still relate to the lives of people living four millennia ago

Moudhy Al-Rashid

10.04

To preserve its authority, the US should have picked its battles more carefully

Allan Mallinson

22.01

Under-reported: A huge British military success. In Iraq (and Syria).

Andrew Brookes

31.12

Under-reported: The free world’s turning of the tide against Islamic militantism

Nile Gardiner

29.12

Under-reported: The West’s failure to stand with its Kurdish allies

Julie Lenarz