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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

Shiites the big winners in Iraq since US toppled Saddam

Baghdad (AFP) - Twenty years after US-led forces ousted Iraq's Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, the long-oppressed Shiite majority dominates the country's politics, with all the powers and pitfalls that come with government.

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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,…

France 24

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.

Al Jazeera

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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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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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20 years after US Iraq invasion, Senate acts to end war authorization

Washington (AFP) - Almost exactly 20 years after US forces invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, the US Senate moved Thursday to revoke the law that authorized then-president George W. Bush to launch the war.

WEKU

Senate advances a bill to repeal Iraq war authorizations

A bill to repeal authorization of the use of force in Iraq has cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate. A final vote in the chamber could come near 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The Conversation

Iraq war, 20 years on: how the world failed Iraq and created a less peaceful, democratic and prosperous state

Two decades ago, Australia joined the US-led “coalition of the willing” that staged a major military intervention in Iraq.

Crikey

Keating’s blast wounds many — and raises inconvenient questions

Former prime minister Keating may have brought up major issues with the AUKUS ‘forever deal’ with the US and UK, but don’t expect a patriotic media to play along.

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The Conversation

It's been 20 years since the US invaded Iraq – long enough for my undergraduate students to see it as a relic of the past

The United States invaded Iraq 20 years ago in March 2003, claiming it had to disarm the Iraqi government of weapons of mass destruction and end the dictatorial rule of President Saddam Hussein.

The Independent UK

Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after 'shock and awe'

Twenty years ago the U.S. invaded Iraq amid blinding explosions of shock and awe

Crikey

Putin grasps for meaning in a meaningless invasion, refusing to cut his losses

Like most dictators, the Russian president fears his own people so there’s no way he will admit the stupidity of his invasion of Ukraine.

Foreign Policy

Putin Is Trapped in the Sunk-Cost Fallacy of War

Moscow is grasping for meaning in a meaningless invasion.

The Conversation

Christopher Hitchens was a model of the public intellectual as celebrity. Could he really be the saviour of the Left?

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L. Mencken, after whom he named his 20-year column for The Nation magazine.

The Guardian - US

The Iraq war started the post-truth era. And America is to blame

The Iraq war ushered in a style of politics where truth is, at best, an inconvenience

The Guardian - UK

Rifts remain in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq home town 20 years after his fall

Some members of Tikrit’s Sunni population feel they still unjustly bear the legacy of dictator’s brutal reign

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