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After John Howard took Australia to war in Iraq, he was scarcely held to account. Instead, he was re-elected

On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Paul Daley maps out the events leading up to Australia’s involvement and the consequent fallout

The Guardian - AU

Iraq War veteran Dan Jarvis pays tribute to fallen comrades ahead of 20th anniversary

The Labour MP said it was "absolutely legitimate" to think it was wrong to invade Iraq - and a special debate in the Commons this week is solely to commemorate the service of "those very brave men and women who stepped forward in good faith and to serve"

Daily Mirror

The week in audio: BBC 5 Live; Shock and War; Countered Terrorism; The Trust Race; Movers and Shakers

Even the Lineker row couldn’t stop Stephen Nolan; Gordon Corera launched an insightful look back at the Iraq war; and Rory Cellan-Jones talked to others about the trials of Parkinson’s Disease

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20 years on, George W. Bush's promise of democracy in Iraq and Middle East falls short

President George W. Bush and his administration put forward a variety of reasons to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Conversation

'My son's last words were "don't worry mum, I'll be back" - but he never was'

Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands

Daily Mirror

Geysers of burning oil, looting and mayhem – reporting on the opening days of the Iraq war

The Guardian and Observer’s correspondent recalls his 2003 journey dodging US tanks, checkpoints and police

The Guardian - UK

The US was prepared to bomb the Middle East into shape. In Ukraine, it seems no less self-serving

Washington split with old allies in order to pursue its own interests in Iraq, says Guardian chief leader writer Randeep Ramesh

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20 years on, most Americans say Iraq invasion was the wrong decision

The war has shaped a generation of U.S. foreign policy.

Axios

I looked at Tony Blair and said: ‘You murdered my son.’ I feel that just as strongly today

For years after my Gordon’s death in Iraq, I campaigned for justice – until the 2016 inquiry and that encounter. A reckoning is overdue, says Rose Gentle, whose son was killed in June 2004

The Guardian - UK

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

US soldier who raped and killed girl, 14, says 'I didn't think of Iraqis as humans'

Steven Dale Green was one of the US soldiers who raped teenage Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in the Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq and he has spoken of how the atrocities of a war dehumanise people

Daily Mirror

Amirabdollahian Denies Differences Over Iran's Foreign Policy

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian denied on Saturday any local differences over Iran’s novel foreign policy, stressing that all parties were in coordination under "the supervision of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi." Amirabdollahian confirmed that the Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Ali Shamkhani, would soon visit Iraq. Earlier, observers questioned the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two decades after the Iraq invasion: what happened to the promise of education for girls?

Twenty years ago Iraqi women and girls were promised a new future of liberation and education by former US president Bush. The reality is different

The Guardian - UK

The Thick of It was fuelled by my anger at the Iraq war – and the way it left truth for dead

Tony Blair’s terrible decision inspired my tale of stupidity in the corridors of power – with a howl of frustration among the one-liners, says film and TV writer Armando Iannucci

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Daily Record

Mums of Scots soldiers speak of pride, grief and anger on 20th anniversary of Iraq war

The mothers have said they will never forgive former PM Tony Blair for the death of their sons.

Daily Record

Nation still scarred from Iraq invasion 20 years on as victims remembered

Record View says we can never forget those who lost their lives in the conflict - or forgive those who led us into war on false pretences.

The Guardian - AU

‘I need my freedom’: Mohammed Al-Bdairi should be at the birth of his child – but he remains in detention

The Iraqi refugee’s visa was cancelled in 2019 but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturned the ruling in December

Foreign Policy

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.

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The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

The Iraq war's damage to public trust in experts has consequences right up to today

Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, politicians continue to repeat the errors of the past by taking information from security briefings that they want to hear.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Kurdish Force Says It Lost 9 Fighters in Iraq Crash

The main US-backed and Kurdish-led force in northeastern Syria said Friday it lost nine fighters, including a commander, when two helicopters crashed this week in neighboring Iraq. The Syrian Democratic Forces said the helicopters crashed during bad weather while en route to the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Wednesday…

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Conversation

Iraq war 20 years on: the British government has never fully learned from Tony Blair's mistakes

The Iraq war remains the UK’s most investigated foreign policy decision of the past 50 years. As the world marks 20 years since the invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we have to ask, has the UK learned any lessons from what happened in 2003?

The Guardian - UK

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

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