Iraq
Meet Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new Caliph of Islam
So what does a 21st Century Caliphate have in store for us?
ISIS are more in thrall to Hitler and Stalin than to the Caliphate
The contemporary agitation for a Caliphate is a struggle to establish a totalitarian state that bears little resemblance to Muslim empires of the past.
We should intervene to stop ISIS atrocities in Iraq
We can't ignore the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and the West must consider intervening, argues James Snell.
Blair is not the only one with Iraq amnesia – the Lib Dems were NOT anti-invasion, just anti-that-kind-of-invasion
It is one of the great myths of recent political history – that the Liberal Democrats were opposed to Britain joining with US forces to invade Iraq in 2003.
What the war on terror could have been like
Andrew Noakes of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights asks a pertinent question: what if the war on terror has turned out differently?
Syria debate – poisoning the well and dragging into the gutter
The Syria debate shows that since the Iraq War politicians and the public have become less inclined to accept the word of those in authority.