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Twenty years ago, the United States launched its first wave of attacks against Iraq. The mission to depose Saddam Hussein began with overwhelming popular support at home as Americans rallied to the Bush administration’s insistence that Iraq’s weapons stockpile posed a grave risk to the country and the world at…

Looking back after 20 years, I recall how an unswerving PM bullied MPs to get their votes and ignored cool heads, says the Labour MP Diane Abbott

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

A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration.

Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war

On March 20, 2003, the U.S. carried out its first airstrikes in Iraq.

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Al-Ragheb revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat, and for the first time, the behind-the-scenes dealings related to the build up of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Jordan had repeatedly warned decision-makers in the West that chaos would reign in Iraq should the invasion…

Former French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, who recently published a remarkable book entitled "The Others Don't Think Like Us," experienced the US invasion of Iraq "first hand." Gourdault-Montagne served as the diplomatic adviser to late French President Jacques Chirac and his representative at the G7 and G20 in the summer of…

The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false