Iraq
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Barack Obama authorises air strikes against Isis militants in Syria
11 Sep 2014: President announces in televised address that US will target Islamic State militants in Syria for the first time
The Iraq war logs
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How civilians have paid heaviest price
Video (4min 11sec) Leaked military files analysed by the Guardian reveal secret US tally of Iraqi deaths
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Every death mapped
The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every death in Iraq. These are those events mapped using Google Fusion tables
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Secret files show how US ignored torture
Military files analysed by the Guardian show how US authorities have let crimes go unpunished and concealed civilian deaths
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15,000 previously unlisted civilian deaths
Leaked Pentagon files contain records of more than 100,000 fatalities including 66,000 civilians
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11 Sep 2014: US national security editor Spencer Ackerman breaks down the omissions, inversions and problems of Obama’s Isis speech
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11 Sep 2014: A year ago, Obama told the nation he was stepping back from military intervention. On Wednesday, he made a starkly different announcement: what amounted to a declaration of war
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11 Sep 2014: Sami Ramadani: Past interventions helped create Isis and al-Qaida. Have Britain and the US not learned the lessons?
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Interactive, 11 Sep 2014:
Barack Obama's announcement last night about the war against the Islamic State (Isis) – which he prefers to call Isil – was filled with euphemisms, questionable statements, caveats, omissions and even the occasional truth. Here's an annotated version of the speech to serve as a guide to the fine print
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11 Sep 2014: Editorial: The president offers a plan couched in terms of defending America and degrading Isis but he needs to add to it a diplomatic effort to help settle the Shia-Sunni conflict
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11 Sep 2014:
Spokesman says Cameron hasn't ruled anything out after Hammond insisted that UK won't be taking part in strikes
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11 Sep 2014: President announces in televised address that US will target Islamic State militants in Syria for the first time
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11 Sep 2014:
Ian Black: Air strikes mean more support for rebels fighting to overthrow Assad but consequences of intervention are hard to predict
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11 Sep 2014: Afzal Ashraf: Involving regional countries in the conflict represents the most immature part of a risky US plan
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11 Sep 2014: PM says ‘a specific request for military assistance hasn’t yet come’ but that if it does it would be considered
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