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This Week in History: Mafia mozzarella, war in Iraq and a united Germany

Explore how major events between 16 and 22 March were captured on The Independent’s front pages

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Voices: Alan Kurdi symbolised an army of dead children. We ignore them at our peril

In a piece published a year after the death of the two-year-old boy, the late Robert Fisk asked whether the world had learned any lessons from the tragedy

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University to set up public archive on work of renowned Independent journalist Robert Fisk

Over the course of his career, Fisk travelled to Syria, Iraq, Bosnia, and Lebanon and interviewed Osama Bin Laden on three occasions

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University to set up public archive on work of journalist Robert Fisk

Fisk was one of the best known Middle East correspondents and spent his career reporting from the region.

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Irish peacekeepers have been in Lebanon so long that locals speak English with a Cork accent

Irish peacekeepers have a long history of putting themselves in the firing line in Lebanon — and becoming so close with locals that people speak English with a Cork accent, Richard Hall writes

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Independent readers pay tribute to ‘lion of truth’ and ‘gifted journalist’ Kim Sengupta

Kim ‘took us to places we didn’t want to be and showed us the horror and the hope’ says our community. Lauren MacDougall shares reader tributes to the award-winning war correspondent following his death

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Between the ‘new’ Middle East and media’s myopia, a shrinking Palestinian voice

It’s a strange moment in history for a Matryoshka doll of lies that’s usually re-offered swollen with each flare-up in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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How Blair’s ‘dodgy dossier’ was changed after Independent reporter spotted flaw in case for war

Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10

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So where were they, Mr Blair? How The Independent exposed the lie of Saddam’s WMD and the justification for an illegal war

The Independent titles vigorously opposed the Iraq war long before others saw the error of their support: Then-editor Tristan Davies reveals how, one month into the conflict, The Independent on Sunday became the first to highlight the failure to find weapons of mass destruction

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Shock and awe: Robert Fisk’s dispatch as bombs rained down on Baghdad

The Iraq war began 20 years ago with a night of bombing on capital Baghdad – and Robert Fisk was there to witness it all. Here, we reproduce that day’s reports from The Independent’s celebrated Middle East correspondent

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How the Iraq war unfolded – as reported by The Independent

The conflict cost hundreds of thousands of lives, ruined millions more and shook an entire region – and The Independent was one of the few to oppose invasion from the very beginning. From WMDs and ‘sexed-up’ dossiers to whitewashing and ‘we got him’, here’s how Bush and Blair’s doomed war…

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