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Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

CNN

CNN — Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. In response to questions about Syria’s lack of press freedoms and system of one-party rule, he engaged in classic “whataboutism.” He exhibited absolutely no responsibility nor remorse about Syrian human rights violations, instead deflecting and highlighting examples of US abuses in Iraq. Meanwhile Syria’s closest allies were also Iran - …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

CNN

CNN — Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. In response to questions about Syria’s lack of press freedoms and system of one-party rule, he engaged in classic “whataboutism.” He exhibited absolutely no responsibility nor remorse about Syrian human rights violations, instead deflecting and highlighting examples of US abuses in Iraq. Meanwhile Syria’s closest allies were also Iran - …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Archaeologists discover ancient site of key Iraq battle thanks to old spy photos

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A joint team of archaeologists from Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across …

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Spy satellite images lead archeologists to the site of a historic battle in Iraq

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the spread of Islam throughout the region. Dr Jaafar al Jotheri holds satellite images and explores the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyah, which was fought in Mesopotamia - present-day Iraq …

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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, 3 months ago

Iraq offers rewards for information on missing people from Gulf War

Al Jazeera

Baghdad calls on people with information about the burial sites of Iraqis and Kuwaitis missing since the 1990-1991 Gulf War to come forward. Baghdad has announced a financial reward for information on the location of burial sites for Iraqi and Kuwaiti victims of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In a joint statement on Sunday, the Iraqi ministries of defence and interior …

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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

After the Iraq War, Saddam’s legendary palaces are open to all

Al Jazeera

After the Iraq war, the closely guarded, lavish estates belonging to the former strongman were opened to the public. There are traces of Saddam here, like his initials carved on the stone facade and bricks in a back passageway stamped with: ”In the reign of the victorious Saddam Hussein, the president of the Republic, may God keep him, the guardian …

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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

My plagiarised work was used to justify the war on Iraq

Al Jazeera

Imagine it is February 5, 2003. That night I was visiting my parents’ home in Monterey, California, watching Colin Powell present the UN with a montage of satellite photographs supposedly showing weapons of mass destruction, the intercepted calls of an Iraqi officer who was allegedly hiding them and claims that Iraq could weaponise anthrax to carry out a terrorist attack. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Did the United States Actually Learn Anything From the Iraq War?

Slate

This piece was originally published on Just Security, an online forum for analysis of U.S. national security law and policy. But has the United States fully internalized the lessons of the Iraq War? The United States pursued a frustratingly imperfect strategy in Iraq for a decade after the first Gulf War. President Joe Biden has likened arms for Ukraine to …

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1 year, 9 months ago

How the Iraq war unfolded – as reported by The Independent

The Independent

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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

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

Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Twenty years after the U.S. invaded Iraq — in blinding explosions of shock and awe — American forces remain in the country in what has become a small but consistent presence to ensure an ongoing relationship with a key military and diplomatic partner in the Middle East. The divide was a key factor in the collapse of the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Saddam Hussein ‘disposed of’ near ex-PM’s home post-execution

Al Jazeera

Former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi says Saddam had been left between his home and that of ex-PM Nouri al-Maliki before later being taken away. Former Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa al-Kadhimi has claimed that the body of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was “disposed of” near the ex-prime minister’s home in Baghdad after Hussein’s execution in 2006. In an interview …

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Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

Archaeologists discover ancient site of key Iraq battle thanks to old spy photos

Spy satellite images lead archeologists to the site of a historic battle in Iraq

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

Iraq offers rewards for information on missing people from Gulf War

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

After the Iraq War, Saddam’s legendary palaces are open to all

Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq

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

My plagiarised work was used to justify the war on Iraq

Did the United States Actually Learn Anything From the Iraq War?

How the Iraq war unfolded – as reported by The Independent

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

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

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

Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’

Saddam Hussein ‘disposed of’ near ex-PM’s home post-execution