The long-awaited Chilcot report has given the most sound and damning judgment by far for the British campaign in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role in it. It concluded the 2003 invasion of Iraq was not necessary and failed to meet its stated objectives.
As Britain’s Iraq Inquiry Report turns the world’s attention to former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to go to war, a Japanese citizens group is conducting its own Iraq inquiry in lieu of a government effort.
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain went to war alongside the US in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of flawed intelligence that went unchallenged, a shaky legal rationale, inadequate preparation and exaggerated public statements, an independent inquiry into the war concluded in a report published yesterday.
A long-awaited British inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq on Wednesday revealed that Britain's decision to join the U.S.-led war is a blind action to follow its U.S. ally, which spares no effort to intervene in other countries under the cover of democracy.
The Sri Lankan government Saturday rejected claims that not much has been done to assist families affected by the 30-year war.
Dozens of Japanese citizens gathered here on Thursday, protesting U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima and the two countries' intended political manipulation of the city.
President Barack Obama came into office seven years ago pledging to end the wars of his predecessor George W. Bush. On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr Obama passed a sombre, little-noticed milestone: He has now been at war longer than Mr Bush, or any other American president.
Around 1,000 protesters marched in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday in protest against the relocation of a controversial U.S. military base and demanded the closure of all bases on the island.
A faceless skull with a crown of spikes and blood pouring from its wounds, symbolizing a Syrian caught in the horror of civil war, stares out from a painting on the wall in a student theater in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
A two-day nationwide shutdown called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami began on Sunday morning in protest of an apex court verdict that upheld death penalty for the Islamist party's chief for 1971 war crimes.
Hopes of ending Syria's long-standing conflict hang in the balance as disturbing violence continues to blemish the war-torn country's political and military landscape.
China on Friday urged Japan's political figures to uphold correct conception of history after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine.
A group of lawmakers on Friday visited the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine which stands as a symbol of Japan's militarism and honors its war dead including criminals convicted by an international tribunal.
South Korea on Thursday urged Japan to squarely face up history in a right way after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ritual offerings to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe along with some notable senior politicians on Thursday made ritual offerings to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
Five years after massive anti-government protests across Syria, the country is still mired in a prolonged civil war that could trace its origin to the intervention by the U.S.-led West.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) denounced on Sunday the United States and South Korea for mulling kicking off the military drills on March 7, saying the United States should be responsible if a war breaks out in the Korean Peninsula.
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