Iraq

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Members of the White Helmets in Syria carry an injured but alive child from the rubble of a collapsed building following pro-regime air strikes in summer last year.

Dogmatic anti-imperialism: How the left learned the wrong lessons from Iraq

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"Improving - and actively supporting - the justice system is critical if Iraq is to avoid another terrible descent into violence."

Isis is on the ropes in Iraq. Now the UK needs to push for justice

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"The fall of Aleppo brought a cacophony of recriminations against those who opposed military action against President Assad in 2013"

Arguments over Western failures in Syria mask the grim reality of unstoppable war

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Liberated: Those kept captive as human shields by Isis have been freed

In our name: British air strikes help liberate Manbij

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"When the next crisis occurs, the lesson from Chilcot should be that we should think more carefully about acting - not that we should never act at all"

Iraq killed the case for liberal intervention

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"The findings against him in the Chilcot report are damning"

Chilcot: Blair’s reputation will never recover

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"It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed evidence and assessments"

Damning Chilcot report vindicates critics of Iraq war

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BASC given permission to bring judicial review of Defra decision

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Concern over doctors’ health needs as legislation to regulate PAs and AAs introduced

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