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Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Senate is moving to repeal the congressional authorization that provided the justification for the war.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years ago gripped the entire nation. Today it is far from the minds of most Americans, though not for the veterans who served there.

Former soldier Dan Jarvis led the late-night parliamentary debate on Operation Telic.

The outrage around the invasion became a call to arms, the repercussions of which are still being felt today, writes Kim Sengupta

Tony Blair’s decision to invade tore at successive Labour leaders and weakened the intelligence services

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

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.

Watch the scene live from Baghdad as the country marks the 20-year anniversary since the breakout of the Iraq war.

Vladimir Putin visits Mariupol, Marles says Iraq war opponents have been vindicated and NSW election nears

The conflict cost hundreds of thousands of lives, ruined millions more and shook an entire region – and The Independent was one of the few to oppose invasion from the very beginning. From WMDs and ‘sexed-up’ dossiers to whitewashing and ‘we got him’, here’s how Bush and Blair’s doomed war…