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31st March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
31 March 2003: Military chiefs accuse Rumsfeld.
American leaders… Read more
30th March 2013
In an article for Syria Comment, Matthew Barber discusses a rare moment of realism this week in the Syrian parliament. During a televised session, MP Walid al-Zou'bi spoke about rebel gains in the province of Dera'a, next to the Jordanian border.
Zou'bi told the parliament that he had alerted the… Read more
30th March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
30 March 2003: First suicide bombing.
Four American soldiers died… Read more
29th March 2013
Human Rights Watch says it stands by its assessment of the situation in Bahrain following an attack on its findings by Britain's ambassador in the troubled Gulf kingdom.
At the end of a fact-finding visit last month, HRW said Bahrain’s rulers had "made no progress on key reform promises, failing to… Read more
29th March 2013
A group of British MPs have "hailed the positive political and economic atmosphere reigning in Bahrain as well as landmark development strides", the Gulf Daily News ("The Voice of Bahrain") reports today.
The delegation of MPs, headed by Richard Ottaway, chairman of the House of Commons Foreign… Read more
29th March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
29 March 2003: Fifty dead in Baghdad market blast.
Iraq suffered… Read more
28th March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
28 March 2003: Richard Perle resigns.
Amid admissions that Iraq has… Read more
27th March 2013
Backing the regime in Bahrain: Liam Fox and John Bolton
The idea of holding an international conference on "institutional developments and political reforms in Bahrain" prompts the obvious joke that there won't be much to talk about, but this is the theme for the Bahrain International Symposium… Read more
27th March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
27 March 2003:
More than 1,000 members of the US 173rd Airborne… Read more
26th March 2013
To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here.
26 March 2003:
After a series of setbacks, and with the advance on… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
