And the views of the Tigris? Spectacular. After bombing Saddam Hussein's New Presidential Palace today, the US Army swept in and took an inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river ...

“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

Some world events can look different to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at ...

About a dozen people have expressed interest in serving as the U.S. attorney in Detroit, a group that includes several ...

Their last bilateral summit, in Moscow in April, was widely seen as an embarrassment for Mr Blair, as the Russian premier mocked Britain's failure to find Saddam Hussein or any evidence of weapons ...

players and others involved in the “Malice at The Palace” fight in November 2004; and the case against Nathaniel Abraham, who made national news when he was convicted of murder at the age of ...

Under popular pressure, the army mutinies and instead marches on the royal palace. The hated King ... 1968: A counter-coup, in which Saddam Hussein participates, leads to nationalization of Iraqi oil ...

Nearly 20 years since Iraq created a new Constitution assuring that people of all religions and ethnicities would be ...

In the latest twist in an escalating trade war between the US and Canada, Donald Trump announced doubling tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium to 50% only to halt them hours later, after ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s crisis has caused unimaginable suffering inside the country and a constant stream of strategically significant negative spillover effects across the Middle East and ...