The Latest Breaking News from Iraq War

Congress is now considering doing something it hasn’t done since the Vietnam War — repealing authorizations for the use of military force

Advocates say the vote shows progress in efforts to reform legal architecture of the US’s post-9/11 ‘war on terror’.

The final vote to end two Iraq war authorisations clears a key procedural hurdle, as the Senate decides to limit debate.

Those who were there or lost loved ones reflect on their experiences and the meaning of the invasion, 20 years later

In terms of domestic politics, the Iraq War followed the trajectory of the Vietnam War, which also relied on a resolution supporting the use of military force that Congress passed and later repealed.

Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, veterans question its purpose and struggle with the lingering effects.

“Our mission is clear,” declared president George W. Bush following the ground invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”. 

Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had toppled Saddam Hussein. I worked with Salam over the next several years, on my many reporting trips to Iraq, and I can't stop thinking about his personal tragedy…

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.