As Baghdad correspondent for The Telegraph after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I hired “Colonel Ahmed”, an ex-Republican Guard officer, as a driver-cum-bodyguard. He was pleasant, punctual and handy in a scrap, but – like many in Saddam’s deposed elite – not convinced that his fellow Iraqis were ready for democracy.
Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne almost seven decades ago marked the end of the colonial British Empire and the era of direct occupations, writes Batool Subeiti.
When tens of thousands of young people took to the streets of Baghdad and towns and cities across southern and central Iraq in late 2019, one core deman
DUBAI: When tens of thousands of young people took to the streets of Baghdad and towns and cities across southern and central Iraq in late 2019, one core demand resonated louder than any other employment opportunities. The country, which had only recently emerged from decades of tyranny, siege, war and insurgency, had delivered precious little for the generation of young