Patched oil pipe in a pool of crude oil in Iraq’s South Rumaila field

Friday April 17th: Hungry? Wait a year while we increase oil production. Touring Iraq’s war-damaged oilfields, it’s a miracle they’re producing as much as they are.

Dr Jawad al-Ali in the gloom of his office in Basra’s teaching hospital

Thursday April 16th: Are Gulf War depleted uranium weapons causing cancer in Iraqi children?

Canal House, the centre of UN operations in Baghdad.

Wednesday April 15th: ‘Weapons inspectors in the field say they are just the tools. So who are UNSCOM’s brains?

The Burbs in Iraq. A middle class house in Mosul.

Monday April 13th: ‘To hell with sanctions, let’s party’. Iraq’s elite at play.

The inside of a church in Mosul run by Dominican Brothers.

Sunday April 12th: As Iraq’s 800,000 Christians celebrate Easter,  I investigated their situation under Saddam Hussein

A Qadiri devotee eating glass as a spiritual exercise.

Friday April 10th: I watched a man drive three daggers into his head. Then I had to pull them out. The mystical order of the Qadiris

Picture of Saddam in Iraq’s official press centre. Big Brother is watching you.

Thursday April 9th: Of minders, drivers and official tours. Journalism in Saddam’s Iraq

Hussein, 18 months old and malnourished.

Tuesday April 7th: The politics of health in Iraq: Is everyone to blame for the dying children?

Sunday April 5th: Ali Talib dreams of the day he can become an ordinary struggling artist. Art and escapism in Saddam’s Iraq

Talib with some of his photos at an exhibition in Baghdad.

Saddam poster at a filling station on the highway from Jordan. The man is everywhere.

Saturday April 4th: ‘Sanctions have hit Iraq randomly. One man flashes a fistful of dollars. Another begs by the side of the road.’