The Heat: Saudi Arabia blasts & unrest in Iraq - CCTV

Thursday, July 7, 2016

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Bombings from Saudi Arabia to Baghdad – ISIL targeting holy sites and big cities in a deadly series of attacks. Reeling from these bombings, how can these countries and the international community move forward?

The UK Iraq Inquiry - BBC

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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Sir John Chilcot has delivered his long-awaited verdict on Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. We hear from; Lord Williams, Phillippe Sands on the legal consequences and the view from America with Stephen Hadley.

UK Blasts Blair Over Iraq War - CNN

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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CNNI talks to Stephen Hadley, Chairman of United States Institute of Peace, about Iraq.

Iraq’s Deadliest Attack Since the U.S. Invasion - KCRW To the Point

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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Among the recent spate of terror attacks, the explosions that rocked Baghdad on Sunday were the deadliest by far -- the death toll stands at two hundred and fifty -- the highest number for a single attack there since 2003, when the US invaded.

Obama says troop levels in Afghanistan won't be cut as he once pledged - LA Times

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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“I would be surprised if there’s a decision quickly to draw down further because we saw what happened in Iraq when we did that,” said Andrew Wilder, director of Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent federal institution that analyzes conflict around the world. “If we pull them out quickly,” he warned, “the government could collapse and Afghanistan could go back into being an ungoverned space, a haven for transnational terrorist groups.”

Elizabeth II, the Brexit Queen - The New Yorker

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

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In October of 1940, when she was still in curls and called Lilibet within the family, Princess Elizabeth made her first national radio broadcast. It was designed to calm the fears of Britain’s children, as London was being pounded by German bombers for fifty-seven consecutive nights. She was fourteen. “We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well,” she said, on the BBC’s “Children’s Hour.” Seventy-five years later, amid the increasingly chaotic aftermath of the Brexit vote, Quee...