Many Arabs saw Saddam as a strongman who stood up to the West, but most Iraqis despised his brutal authoritarianism.
The chaos I feared a US-led invasion would unleash has destroyed the country I hail from.
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Martin Yousif Zebari unveils his first play, a look at family dynamics in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Notable quotes from before, during and after the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.
A legacy of the US occupation, the muhasasa system sees political positions divided among different religious sects.
‘The war in Iraq continues to have repercussions for its people.’
It has been 20 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, Al Jazeera breaks down some of the war’s defining moments.
Ties between Iraq and the Gulf Arab monarchies have warmed in recent years, but Iran ultimately has more influence.
Twenty years after the war, many Iraqis are suffering the consequences of burn pits the US used to dispose of waste.
The war, and the occupation that followed, changed the course of history in Iraq and the wider region.
A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration.
The US invasion of Iraq was sold to the world as one thing, but the story changed when the facts didn’t fit the script.
In American memory, US lives mattered, Iraqi deaths didn’t. That was by design. Narrative control was a military goal.
Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the effects of war and occupation still reverberate through the region.
