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George Bush 'Duped' Tony Blair Into Backing 2003 Iraq War, Says Former UK PM Gordon Brown
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown claims that his predecessor Tony Blair was "duped" by US President George W Bush into backing the 2003 Iraq War. Mr Brown said that a top secret US intelligence report, which showed there was "no evidence" that Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction, was not shared with the UK governm...
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Oldest Christian Monastery In Iraq Razed
Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the ISIS's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical.
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Ashton Carter In Iraq To Seek New Ways To Battle ISIS
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has traveled to Iraq on an unannounced visit with directions from President Barack Obama to find new ways to hasten the destruction of the ISIS.
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Islamic State Jihadists Threaten Ancient Palmyra Ruins
The Islamic State group seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, reportedly giving it control of half of the country as UNESCO warned the destruction of the ancient city would be "an enormous loss to humanity".
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Islamic State at Gates of Syria's Palmyra Raising Fears for Ancient City
Islamic State group fighters advanced to the gates of ancient Palmyra Thursday, raising fears the Syrian world heritage site could face destruction of the kind the jihadists have already wreaked in Iraq.
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Islamic State Jihadists Threaten Syria's Ancient Palmyra: Monitor
Islamic State group jihadists battled Syrian troops near ancient Palmyra Thursday, threatening the UNESCO world heritage site with the kind of destruction it has wreaked in Iraq, a monitoring group said.
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Islamic State Video Shows Destruction of Ancient Assyrian City
The Islamic State group on Saturday released a video that shows militants smashing artefacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site.
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Opinion: What ISIS Achieves With Its Images Of Destruction
The militants understand that assaults on art with Biblical associations are likely to generate a firestorm in countries with large Christian populations, and that is what they have achieved, says Phiroze Vasunia.
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UNESCO Demands Crisis Meet Over Iraq Heritage Destruction
The head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the world body's Security Council following the mass destruction by jihadists of ancient artefacts in Iraq.
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New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Denounces 'Catastrophic' Iraq Destruction
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday strongly condemned the "catastrophic" destruction of ancient artefacts by extremists in Iraq's second city of Mosul.
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UN Chief Invokes Gandhi's Message for Peace and Nonviolence
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi's legacy, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the world should recall his message of peace and non-violence at a time of increased sectarian violence and destruction of cultural sites, particularly in Iraq and Syria.
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US B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction
The stealthy, nuclear-capable US B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft.
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Iraq: A war of muddled goals, painful sacrifice
In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective became simply to get out - and leave behind a country where democracy has at...
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George Bush 'Duped' Tony Blair Into Backing 2003 Iraq War, Says Former UK PM Gordon Brown
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown claims that his predecessor Tony Blair was "duped" by US President George W Bush into backing the 2003 Iraq War. Mr Brown said that a top secret US intelligence report, which showed there was "no evidence" that Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction, was not shared with the UK governm...
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Oldest Christian Monastery In Iraq Razed
Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the ISIS's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical.
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Ashton Carter In Iraq To Seek New Ways To Battle ISIS
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has traveled to Iraq on an unannounced visit with directions from President Barack Obama to find new ways to hasten the destruction of the ISIS.
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Islamic State Jihadists Threaten Ancient Palmyra Ruins
The Islamic State group seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, reportedly giving it control of half of the country as UNESCO warned the destruction of the ancient city would be "an enormous loss to humanity".
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Islamic State at Gates of Syria's Palmyra Raising Fears for Ancient City
Islamic State group fighters advanced to the gates of ancient Palmyra Thursday, raising fears the Syrian world heritage site could face destruction of the kind the jihadists have already wreaked in Iraq.
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Islamic State Jihadists Threaten Syria's Ancient Palmyra: Monitor
Islamic State group jihadists battled Syrian troops near ancient Palmyra Thursday, threatening the UNESCO world heritage site with the kind of destruction it has wreaked in Iraq, a monitoring group said.
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Islamic State Video Shows Destruction of Ancient Assyrian City
The Islamic State group on Saturday released a video that shows militants smashing artefacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site.
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Opinion: What ISIS Achieves With Its Images Of Destruction
The militants understand that assaults on art with Biblical associations are likely to generate a firestorm in countries with large Christian populations, and that is what they have achieved, says Phiroze Vasunia.
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UNESCO Demands Crisis Meet Over Iraq Heritage Destruction
The head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the world body's Security Council following the mass destruction by jihadists of ancient artefacts in Iraq.
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New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Denounces 'Catastrophic' Iraq Destruction
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday strongly condemned the "catastrophic" destruction of ancient artefacts by extremists in Iraq's second city of Mosul.
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UN Chief Invokes Gandhi's Message for Peace and Nonviolence
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi's legacy, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the world should recall his message of peace and non-violence at a time of increased sectarian violence and destruction of cultural sites, particularly in Iraq and Syria.
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US B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction
The stealthy, nuclear-capable US B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft.
-
Iraq: A war of muddled goals, painful sacrifice
In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective became simply to get out - and leave behind a country where democracy has at...
