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Lawmakers are once again trying to reclaim their war powers through AUMF repeal.

Episode One Journalists sometimes fall into the trap of being drawn into the story of a thorny, sensual, or cruel man who has a remarkable role at a certain stage. The man’s name could be Vladimir Putin, Saddam Hussein, or Muammar Gaddafi. I was attracted to stories shrouded in so…

In February 2003, 1.5 million people protested in London against the looming conflict. They didn’t stop the war… but their legacy still looms large

The Senate will vote this month to repeal two decades-old measures that approved American military action in Iraq

It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.

A US commandos force arrested former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who disappeared immediately after the toppling of his regime. The search and arrest of Saddam was a priority for the US political and military leadership, especially after the operations targeting these forces escalated in several Iraqi regions. Everyone saw the…

Iraqi refugee who arrived in Britain aged nine with no English rose to No 11 Downing Street and propped up Boris Johnson’s ailing administration last summer, only to be brought down by scandal of his own

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, the man who came to the UK without a word of English and ran to be the next prime minister, by Sean O’Grady

The masterly paintings of Baghdad-born Mohammed Sami conjure an ominous no man’s land. And vases conspire with jugs in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi

Sami, a refugee from Iraq, learned his trade painting his country’s then leader. His disquieting works, full of tortured surfaces, feel like distillations of death and chaos

Iraqi refugee who arrived in Britain aged nine with no English rose to No 11 Downing Street and propped up Boris Johnson’s ailing administration last summer, only to be brought down by scandal of his own