Iraq: a decade after war

On March 20, 2003 a US-led coalition invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein on the pretext of his possession of weapons of mass destruction and links with Osama bin Laden. A decade later the US, Britain and the Middle East still face the consequences of that fateful decision

Editorial from COMMENT May 6, 2013

Dissolving Iraq

Maliki’s sectarianism threatens break-up of country

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Iraq’s oil a decade on
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Iraqi oil production since 1980 and the limitations western oil companies face doing business there.
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A tale of two Middle East anniversaries
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Memories of the Iraq war ten years ago are influencing the debate over intervention in the two-year-old Syrian uprising
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Editorial from COMMENT Mar 31, 2013

Pastoral is political for Arab Christians

Another Easter caught in the Sunni-Shia crossfire

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the AL-Mashtal district in Baghdad ©Reuters From WORLD Mar 19, 2013

Dozens killed in Iraq anniversary attacks

Baghdad hit by car bomb and suicide blasts

Members of a private security company pose on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September 2007. Iraq declared today it will review the operations of all security firms working in the war-ravaged country following a deadly shootout involving private US contractor Blackwater ©Getty From WORLD Mar 18, 2013

Contractors reap $138bn from Iraq war

Analysis reveals benefits for private US and foreign companies

Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq ©Reuters From WORLD Mar 17, 2013

Iraq’s appeal wanes for oil majors

Many groups shift sights to semi-autonomous Kurdistan region

A man walks with his son in Kadhamia, a Shia district in Baghdad ©Sebastian Meyer Roula Khalaf from LIFE & ARTS Mar 16, 2013

Iraq: 10 years later

A decade on from the US invasion, the country is engulfed in a political storm and normal life is still just a dream

Ingram Pinn illustration ©Ingram Pinn Philip Stephens from COMMENT Mar 14, 2013

After hubris in Iraq, hesitation in Syria

The tough lessons from an invasion a decade ago do not apply today

Customers shop for clothes at a clothing store in Baghdad's Karrada district August 14, 2012. Iraq ©Reuters Roula Khalaf from WORLD Mar 14, 2013

Fortune favours the brave in Iraq

Entrepreneurs see Iraq’s desperate needs as a unique opening

Turkish trucks and tankers queue along a road leading to the Habur border gate in southeastern Turkey, before crossing into Iraq ©Reuters From WORLD Mar 12, 2013

Turkey emerges as true Iraq war victor

Exports to neighbour increase 25% a year since conflict started

From COMMENT Mar 8, 2013

Iraq: a display of declining US power

The only winners were the forces the coalition of the willing sought to defeat, writes David Gardner

Roula Khalaf from WORLD Mar 4, 2013

Iraq’s difficult decade with democracy

Most depressing to many is sense of a creeping authoritarianism

Editorial from COMMENT Mar 3, 2013

Lessons from Iraq a decade after war

Obsession with Security Council backing is misguided

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