Saddam Hussein

Iraq has ordered the seizure of assets that belonged to executed dictator Saddam Hussein and more than 4,200 officials from his former regime

5 min

Middle East

In Jordan, Saddam remains revered for loyalty to 'Palestinian martyrs'

'If he was still alive many things would not have happened... like the Israeli occupation's crimes against our people in Palestine'

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U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi Army soldiers in Mosul, north of Baghdad, Iraq.

2 min

US / Canada

U.S. Senate backs repeal of ‘zombie’ Iraq war authorizations 20 years on

Two decades after the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the vote was a symbolic step away from a war that killed hundreds of thousands

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President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, United States.

3 min

The Gulf

Operation Iraqi Freedom: 20 years on

Operation Iraqi Freedom became a crusade to establish a western liberal democracy in the Middle East

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US marines of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, kneel in prayer during final preparations before the US-led invasion of Iraq, Camp Shoup, north of Kuwait City, 20 March, 2003.

2 min

Middle East

Few tears shed in Iraq for the passing of Donald Rumsfeld

More than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between 2003 and 2011 following US-led invasion

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