Brilliant reporting by @andrew_r_gray on a civilian shot by US troops during the Iraq war.

“there are more cookbooks in Arabic from before 1400 than in the rest of the world’s languages put together.”

Adjusting for inflation, US has spent 50% more on reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan than on the Marshall plan.

@JoostHiltermann explains.

What's really happening in Iraq.

The reality of the #MuslimBan.

Well done, Bush and Blair.

How ISIS really was created (part 1 of 3).

My former colleague @carneross.

The brutal summary.

Good question.

From Bosnia to Somaliland, via Nagorno-Karabakh.

"The Iraq War, more than any other single factor, *created* ISIS."

@TheEconomist explains.

Thorough analysis.

Britain's most recent military campaigns.

In case you'd forgotten.

Bush/Blair's legacy.

US complicity.

An accidental election technology specialist writes.

Hugh Pope reviews "We Meant Well: how I helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people".

Iraq Body Count has patiently and consistently tabulated recorded deaths since the invasion. It has now conducted a preliminary analysis of a sample of the incidents recorded in the documents (including all the larger ones) (see Paul Rogers, “The harvest of war: from pain to gain”, 28 October 2010).This concludes that the logs both confirm the maj…