The Latest Breaking News from Saddam Hussein

Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10

Ties between Iraq and the Gulf Arab monarchies have warmed in recent years, but Iran ultimately has more influence.

On March 20, 2003, the U.S. carried out its first airstrikes in Iraq.

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Al-Ragheb revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat, and for the first time, the behind-the-scenes dealings related to the build up of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Jordan had repeatedly warned decision-makers in the West that chaos would reign in Iraq should the invasion…

Former French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, who recently published a remarkable book entitled "The Others Don't Think Like Us," experienced the US invasion of Iraq "first hand." Gourdault-Montagne served as the diplomatic adviser to late French President Jacques Chirac and his representative at the G7 and G20 in the summer of…

The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false

Coalition senators offered both vague laments and staunch justifications, while the Greens found an unlikely ally

Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the effects of war and occupation still reverberate through the region.

The Iraq war began 20 years ago with a night of bombing on capital Baghdad – and Robert Fisk was there to witness it all. Here, we reproduce that day’s reports from The Independent’s celebrated Middle East correspondent