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Hundreds of children are being killed in Iraq every month, with some being used as suicide bombers, according to War Child. A report from the charity warns that Iraqi children have been abandoned since the 2003 invasion, despite increasing violence, falling school numbers and lower life expectancy.
Baroness Nicholson worried about the effect of Syria reaching an “explosion moment” on its neighbouring states. “What we’ve seen in Syria is a very, very worrying...
Foreign and Commonwealth Office press release Alistair Burt says Iraqis want a stable, prosperous and democratic country, not a return to the sectarian conflict o...
FCO press release Speaking today from Jordan, Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt said: “I am deeply concerned to hear of the escalating ...
SNP press release The Scottish Parliament has today marked the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the illegal Iraq war by overwhelmingly voting to learn the less...
Downing Street insisted that UK personnel in Cyprus would not lose out as Cypriot politicians look at ways of mitigating the impact of the deposit tax on low-level s...
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