Oliver Poole
Oliver Poole is an award-winning Foreign Correspondent for the Evening Standard and Independent titles. In his career he has reported from war zones including Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq, where he was based during the worst years of the civil war. He has written two books, "Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad' and 'Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad'. He was previously a Foreign Reporter for The Daily Telegraph, and has written for the BBC, Guardian, Times and South China Morning Post.
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Vladimir Putin is given 'one last chance' to end hostilities in Ukraine
20 July 2014 12:00 AM
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President Peres speaks candidly about his relationship with Yasser Arafat and also with Benjamin Netanyahu
Britons are giving more time and more money, but how successful is the Big Society?
29 June 2014 12:00 AM
Iraq crisis: US drones back Baghdad's Tikrit offensive
29 June 2014 12:00 AM
Gerry Conlon dead: Guildford Four member and victim of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice dies aged 60
22 June 2014 12:04 AM
In one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice, he was wrongly convicted of a 1974 IRA attack
Iraq crisis: Sunni advance on Baghdad stalled by Shia forces
15 June 2014 12:00 AM
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18 April 2014 08:47 AM
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Ukraine crisis: 'Very concerned' US issues warning to Russia against use of military force
13 April 2014 12:00 AM
Ukraine risks its supply of gas being switched off after the country's new government told Moscow it was suspending payments for deliveries, raising the prospect of parts of wider Europe also being deprived of vital Russian supplies.
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash: 'Nine Britons, 23 Americans and 80 children' feared dead after Boeing passenger jet is 'shot down' near Ukraine-Russia border
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Vladimir Putin is given 'one last chance' to end hostilities in Ukraine
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The truth about conspiracy theories is that some require considering
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Ukrainian military jet was flying close to passenger plane before it was shot down, says Russian officer
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: victims’ bodies bundled in black bags and loaded onto trains
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash analysis: A tragic lesson of advanced weapons in the wrong hands
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Laurie Penny: Feminist author subjected to 'vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse' over her book
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Why I'm on the brink of burning my Israeli passport
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