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Barzani to Asharq Al-Awsat: At Secret Meeting, Americans Informed us of Decision to Oust Saddam

Saddam Hussein’s shadow often looms large over my meetings with Masoud Barzani. My career has allowed me to follow the thrilling and painful tales of both these officials. Both have an iron will and lived on a hot tin plate called Iraq. Saddam believed that the spirit of the nation…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How the US and UK tried to justify the invasion of Iraq

What were the reasons given for the Iraq war, and how do they stand up today?

Al Jazeera

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

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The invasion of Iraq was a turning point on to a path that led towards Ukraine

Twenty years ago a US-led coalition launched its ‘shock and awe’ attack to topple Saddam Hussein. The reverberations are still being felt

The Guardian - UK

Amr Moussa to Asharq Al-Awsat: The Wound has not Healed, Political Miscalculation Led to Iraq's Fall

Meeting the veteran diplomat, Amr Moussa, always clarifies historical events, especially that for decades, he was a maker and a witness to the course of Arab politics, whether as the head of Egyptian diplomacy (1991-2001) or during 2001-2011 when he was the Arab League Secretary-General. In an interview with Asharq…

Asharq Al-Awsat

War, insurgency, IS and instability: Iraq since the 2003 US invasion

Key events in Iraq since US-led forces invaded to oust Saddam Hussein 20 years ago

The Guardian - UK

A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq

The architects of the 2003 invasion promised change and democracy. This book shatters western assumptions, shows the effect on Iraqis of cycles of violence – and offers cautious hope

The Guardian - UK

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After John Howard took Australia to war in Iraq, he was scarcely held to account. Instead, he was re-elected

On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Paul Daley maps out the events leading up to Australia’s involvement and the consequent fallout

The Guardian - AU

20 years on, George W. Bush's promise of democracy in Iraq and Middle East falls short

President George W. Bush and his administration put forward a variety of reasons to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Conversation

'My son's last words were "don't worry mum, I'll be back" - but he never was'

Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands

Daily Mirror

20 years on, most Americans say Iraq invasion was the wrong decision

The war has shaped a generation of U.S. foreign policy.

Axios

I looked at Tony Blair and said: ‘You murdered my son.’ I feel that just as strongly today

For years after my Gordon’s death in Iraq, I campaigned for justice – until the 2016 inquiry and that encounter. A reckoning is overdue, says Rose Gentle, whose son was killed in June 2004

The Guardian - UK

Saddam’s Tribe: Revenge behind Preventing Our Return Home

More than a thousand families from the Iraqi village of Al-Awja, the hometown of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, have been living away from their homes for nearly a decade. In 2014, the rise of ISIS and its grip on large swathes of provinces west and north of Iraq,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Must Not Squander Another Opportunity to Rebuild

The war’s legacy is 20 years of broken hopes and dreams. This government must do better.

Foreign Policy

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Iraq, 20 years on: the costs of war

Editorial: The toll of the disastrous US decision to invade, backed by the UK, becomes clearer every year

The Guardian - UK

The real lesson of the Iraq invasion? Beware spies and allies who would drag you to war

The errors, exaggerations and lies that led to the invasion offer essential lessons for our own time, in conflict and beyond, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Daily Mirror

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

The Guardian - UK

We Iraqis had survived Saddam Hussein. It was the US invasion that destroyed our lives

We have a saying that captures the devastation of our country: ‘Saddam has gone, but 1,000 more Saddams have replaced him’, says Balsam Mustafa, a research fellow at the University of Warwick

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A bloody delusion: how Iraq war led to catastrophic aftermath in Middle East

The 2003 invasion’s legacy reverberates in the emboldenment of Iran, Islamic State’s violence and the disintegration of Syria

France 24

Iraq, 20 years on: Fallujah bears brunt of legacy of a brutal war

Fallujah is one of the cities that has paid the highest price for the US-led invasion of Iraq two decades ago. A stronghold of support for former dictator Saddam Hussein, it quickly became the scene of brutal guerrilla warfare. The instability created by the conflict produced long-lasting effects. In particular,…

Al Jazeera

Mutanabbi Street slowly re-emerges, 20 years on from Iraq war

The booksellers of Baghdad’s Mutanabbi Street have faced invasion and bombings, two decades on from the war in Iraq.

The Independent UK

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Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan.

The Guardian - UK

Abuses and intelligence failures hang over UK 20 years after Iraq war

Moral reputation of UK intelligence and military has been tarnished for a generation

The Independent UK

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

It’s been 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began March 20, 2003

The Independent UK

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

Today's Iraq is a world away from the terror that followed the U.S. invasion to depose Saddam Hussein 20 years ago this week

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