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Analysis: The US Senate's move to repeal the resolution that allowed former president George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003 had bipartisan support. What does this mean for the future of the US military's current role in the Middle East?

Commentary Twenty years ago last week, American aircraft bombarded Baghdad, starting the United States’ nine-year misadventure in Iraq. ...

Twenty years ago last week, I watched the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on TV in a hotel room in Amman, Jordan, wondering whether it was good or bad luck that I was not in Baghdad to experience the so-called "shock and awe" bombing campaign.

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

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

Former UK prime minister's 'liberal intervention' in Kosovo won him praise, but his embrace of the 2003 Iraq invasion has defined his legacy

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S.led invasion of Iraq. Then-President George W. Bush and his British counterpart, Prime Minister Tony Blair, signed off on a war based on the myth that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction.

The officially sanctioned conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 set a dangerous precedent.

In 2003, the relationship between media and military changed forever when Iraq was invaded, as the BBC world affairs editor recalls

The U.S. has a long and disturbing habit of ignoring the violence it commits overseas as well as at home.