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History may yet be kind to Blair over the Iraq war

Letters: Yes, mistakes were made, but the invasion is what an ethical foreign policy looks like, argues Nick Martin-Clark. Plus letters from Dave Headey, Dr Jonathan Punt, Paul Tyler and Gregory Stock

The Guardian - UK

Ex British soldier killed in Iraq trying to defuse a bomb

The device, made from five gas canisters, had a radio control trigger – set off by a mobile phone

Wales Online

20 Years After Iraq, U.S. Leaders Still Don't Fully Consider International Risks

Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?

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Iraqi Premier in Türkiye to Discuss Water, Security

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani bilateral relations, as well as cooperation in combating terrorism, rebuilding Iraq, and enhancing collaboration in the fields of water, trade and energy. Sudani arrived in Ankara on Tuesday on a two-day visit at the head of a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The US-led war in Iraq and Saddam’s Arab legacy

Many Arabs saw Saddam as a strongman who stood up to the West, but most Iraqis despised his brutal authoritarianism.

Al Jazeera

Banks on the run? Inside the 24 March Guardian Weekly

The ghosts of 2008 return. Plus: 20 years after the Iraq invasion

The Guardian - UK

Erdogan Vows to Boost Water Flow along Tigris River to Ease Iraq’s Water Shortage

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Tuesday to step up the flow of water along the Tigris River to drought-stricken Iraq for one month. Erdogan told Iraq's visiting Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani that he was aware of the "urgent need for water" in Turkiye's war-scarred neighbour. Official Iraqi statistics…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq

Complexes of McMansions, fast food restaurants, real estate offices and half-constructed high-rises line wide, U.S.-style highways in Irbil, the seat of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq

The Independent UK

McCarthy says Iraq military authorizations will first go to House committee

Ahead of expected Senate passage of a measure that would repeal two decades-old Iraq-related military authorizations, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he sees a strong chance the Republican-controlled House will pass a similar bill.

Tribune News Service

McCarthy says Iraq AUMFs will first go to House committee - Roll Call

Speaker Kevin McCarthy indicates support for Iraq authorizations to use military force, but says House action will start in committee.

Roll Call

Iraq war 20 years on: how the role of empire and imperialism in the Middle East has been misconstrued

Before the US-led coalition’s occupation of Iraq starting in March 2003, there was at least one subject upon which certain advocates and opponents of the war agreed: that the invasion was imperialistic. Both sides weaponised the historical role western imperialism played in the Middle East in an equally pragmatic and…

The Conversation

Multiple civilian deaths linked to 2016-17 British airstrikes against IS in Mosul

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds deaths despite claims British weapons did not harm a single non-combatant

The Guardian - UK

Lives torn apart by British airstrikes in Mosul give lie to UK’s ‘perfect’ precision war

Exclusive: Britain says no civilians died in its targeted bombing of Islamic State in Iraq. The Guardian went in search of the unacknowledged victims

The Guardian - UK

Erdogan pledges to ease Iraq's water shortage

Ankara (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Tuesday to step up the flow of water along the Tigris River to drought-stricken Iraq for one month.

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The Independent UK

‘We called it liberation, but the Iraq invasion was an occupation’: A tale of regret from Baghdad

One Iraqi-American citizen pushed for the US-led toppling of Saddam Hussein. Twenty years later, he speaks to Borzou Daragahi about his thoughts now

Daily Mirror

Pilot recalls moment he rescued 23 Iraqis set for beheading from torture chamber

Alan Mack, who also hunted for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, describes the stroke of luck that led him and his team to rescue 23 innocent people from a torture house in Iraq

Daily Mirror

Woman who saw 6 brothers slaughtered in Iraq demands justice for ISIS genocide victims

The catastrophic decision to invade and occupy Iraq in 2003 led to the world’s most feared terrorist group, ISIS, emerging out of al-Qaeda and committing genocide against Nobel laureate Nadia and her people, the Yazidis

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World premiere play spotlights US Assyrian diaspora community

Martin Yousif Zebari unveils his first play, a look at family dynamics in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

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The Guardian - UK

Network Rail boss compares year of strikes to Iraq war

Andrew Haines says ‘warfare’ with workers is over but bosses need to ‘build the peace’

Evening Standard

Why did Keir Starmer ignore the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War?

Starmer marched against the war in 2003 and called it a “breach of international law”. Now he prefers to ignore it

Daily Mirror

Iraq war hero recalls seeing 'disembodied foot in flip flop' during invasion horrors

Sergeant Major John Thompson, 43, a single dad-of-three from Devon, was with the Royal Marines' Delta unit when they touched down on the sands of Iraq, with him later earning medals for his gallantry while in the country

Daily Mirror

Mum of soldier, 19, killed in Iraq war bomb says Tony Blair 'murdered my son'

Speaking to the Mirror to mark the 20th anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Rose Gentle has said the memories of her son, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, will never die but that Sir Tony Blair is to blame for his death

Al Jazeera

Is Iraq’s sectarian quota system holding the country back?

A legacy of the US occupation, the muhasasa system sees political positions divided among different religious sects.

The Guardian - US

How women played crucial roles in Iraq – and changed US military forever

At the time of the invasion, American military women were still banned from ground combat, but they quickly found themselves under enemy fire

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Commemorating a one-day anniversary doesn't substitute for a lifetime of lessons learned

For the next eight years, America will be commemorating the 20-year anniversaries of the ill-fated decision to invade Iraq. March 20, 2003 was only the beginning of the killing and maiming of tens of thousands — American troops and Iraqis alike. The reverberations of that war, based on a Bush…

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