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Kuwait bans release of ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’ video game

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

United Nations votes to end Iraq political mission established after 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein

The Hindu

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on May 31 to end the United Nations political mission in Iraq established in 2003 following the United States-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post-conflict humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and to help restore a representative government in the country. The Iraqi government asked the council in a May 8 letter to …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Who is George Galloway, the British politician who has won Rochdale?

Al Jazeera

How has the man who appeared to defend Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and dressed as a cat on Celebrity Big Brother overturned a Labour Party stronghold? In his victory speech after his headline win last Thursday, the Scottish-born legislator, who has a fondness for fedora hats and cutting put-downs, signalled local voters’ disillusion with the mainstream parties when he …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Iraq sentences Saddam Hussein's daughter for promoting political party

The Hindu

A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced in absentia the exiled daughter of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seven years in prison for "promoting" her father's outlawed Baath party. According to the ruling, which AFP was able to review, Raghad Saddam Hussein was found guilty of the crime of "promoting the activities of the banned Baath party", during television interviews she …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Review of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s A Stranger in Your Own City — Travels in the Middle East’s Long War: A people’s history

The Hindu

On April 9, 2003, a few weeks after the U.S. launched its illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad stood on the roof of his building in Baghdad. Baghdad, that city of fear and oppression, was free for an hour, suspended between the departure of the dictator and the arrival of the occupiers,” Abdul-Ahad writes in his book, A Stranger …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?

Al Jazeera

From Wagner’s crimes and fake pretexts to the UN’s inaction, the Iraq invasion offered a preview of the Ukraine war. ‘We create our own reality’ Both the US-led coalition in Iraq and Russia in Ukraine were led to war by unbridled hubris — that is a “key element” that these two conflicts have in common, said Ibrahim al-Marashi, professor of …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. In the end the answer for me was no.” As with many of her colleagues, Stabenow’s “nay” vote in the early morning hours of Oct. 11, 2002, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq

Associated Press

IRBIL, Iraq — Complexes of McMansions, fast food restaurants, real estate offices and half-constructed high-rises line wide highways in Irbil, the seat of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. “We had built our own institutions, the parliament, the government,” said Hoshyar Zebari, a top official with the Kurdistan Democratic Party who served as foreign minister in Iraq’s first post-Saddam …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The US-led war in Iraq and Saddam’s Arab legacy

Al Jazeera

Many Arabs saw Saddam Hussein as a strongman who stood up to the West, but most Iraqis despised his brutal authoritarianism. Twenty years after the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq which, in former US President George W Bush’s words, aimed to “free Iraqi people” of their ruler’s oppression, Saddam’s memory remains divisive and polarising. Arab ‘strongman’ and Gulf wars …

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1 year, 9 months ago

20 years of the Iraq War: What was the motivation behind US' invasion of Iraq?

Firstpost

Two decades after the invasion, journalistic investigations and insider testimonies have explored nearly every facet of the invasion. One book-length study concluded that while Iraq’s oil heightened its importance to Washington, the invasion was “not a classic resource war, in the sense that the United States did not seize oil reserves for profit and control.” Searching for a reason There …

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1 year, 9 months ago

20 years on, was removing Saddam Hussein worth the war in Iraq?

Al Jazeera

Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the effects of war and occupation still reverberate through the region. Exactly 20 years ago, on March 20, 2003, the United States launched a ground invasion of Iraq, promising to end the rule of President Saddam Hussein and destroy alleged weapons of mass destruction in the oil-rich country. Air operations had begun …

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1 year, 9 months ago

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

NPR

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq Enlarge this image toggle caption Chris Hondros/Getty Images Chris Hondros/Getty Images Two decades ago, U.S. air and ground forces invaded Iraq in what then-President George W. Bush said was an effort to disarm the country, free its people and "defend the world from grave danger." Sponsor Message Meanwhile, Marsin Alshamary, an …

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1 year, 9 months ago

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — On the banks of the Tigris River one recent evening, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous abandon to a local rap star as a vermillion sun set behind them. His companion echoes him: “Saddam was a dictator, but the people were living better, peacefully.” Dismissing current officials as pawns of outside powers, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — It’s been 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began. April-August 2004: Clashes emerge between U.S.-led coalition forces and followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who demands that foreign forces leave Iraq. October 2019-January 2020: With the battle against the Islamic State group mostly ended, Iraqi public dissatisfaction boils over with anti-government protests against rampant corruption, poor …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

The Independent

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2 years, 3 months ago

Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The long reign of Queen Elizabeth II saw large swaths of the world cast off London’s rule, but after her death a handful of British-installed monarchies still endure in the Middle East. King Abdullah II often flies to London to “seek advice from the British on this or that issue,” said Labib Kamhawi, a Jordanian …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Queen's reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy

The Independent

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2 years, 9 months ago

As Russia invades Ukraine, Iraqis remember painful war memories

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s invasion is a painful reminder for many Iraqis who have lost their hopes and dreams due to conflict. “And if Putin could learn anything from Iraq, that is this will be the beginning of his end.” ‘Where we could go’ Despite some fundamental differences between the war in Iraq and the one in Ukraine, one thing almost always remains …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government. Powell rejected comparisons between himself and previous icons like George Marshall, the World War II general who became America’s top diplomat. Powell was the first of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021): Unapologetic warmonger

The Hindu

Donald Rumsfeld, one of the main proponents of the United States-led wars of intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, died in his sleep on June 29 at the age of 88. The day after the twin towers in New York went down and parts of the Pentagon were destroyed, Rumsfeld, then serving as Defence Secretary, prepared a note for President George …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Among Iraqis, the name Rumsfeld evokes nation’s destruction

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — When he heard on the news that Donald Rumsfeld had died, Ali Ridha al-Tamimi and his wife sat down with their four children and told them: “This is the person who ruined our country.” “He destroyed many families. “I will never forgive him for the pain he caused us.” The heated emotions are shared by many in Iraq, …

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Kuwait bans release of ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’ video game

United Nations votes to end Iraq political mission established after 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein

Who is George Galloway, the British politician who has won Rochdale?

Iraq sentences Saddam Hussein's daughter for promoting political party

Review of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s A Stranger in Your Own City — Travels in the Middle East’s Long War: A people’s history

Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq

The US-led war in Iraq and Saddam’s Arab legacy

20 years of the Iraq War: What was the motivation behind US' invasion of Iraq?

20 years on, was removing Saddam Hussein worth the war in Iraq?

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy

Queen's reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy

As Russia invades Ukraine, Iraqis remember painful war memories

Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war

Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021): Unapologetic warmonger

Among Iraqis, the name Rumsfeld evokes nation’s destruction