The Iraqi capital in 2023 is far different from Baghdad in 2003. Ramadi and Fallujah, once the hotbed of insurgency, are not only peaceful but also booming with construction and commerce. Sectarianism …
TotalEnergies boss Patrick Pouyanne says risky $27 billion Iraq investments are jeopardised by Baghdad stance
Chief executive Patrick Pouyanne says projects will not move ahead if the company has to negotiate term by term …
Selling the Iraq War: a How-to Guide
The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass …
Five ways Iraq has changed since the US invasion
A longtime visitor to Iraq describes a “new nation” in an ancient land — one that is still struggling in the aftermath of war.
Five ways Iraq has changed since the US invasion
A longtime visitor to Iraq describes a “new nation” in an ancient land — one that is still struggling in the aftermath of war.
Iraq: 20 years on from US-led invasion, the companies that profited; incl. co. responses
March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. The invasion lasted until 2011, with nearly half a million people estimated to have been killed as a result of the war. During the war …
Iraq: 20 years on from US-led invasion, the companies that profited; incl. co. responses
March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. The invasion lasted until 2011, with nearly half a million people estimated to have been killed as a result of the war. During the war …
What Has Washington Learned from Iraq?
Even when security is implicated, the stakes must be great to warrant war. In the case of the Iraq invasion the cost, financial and human, was enormous. By the time the last veteran of that conflict …
Iraq WMD failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later
Today, Crow sits on committees that oversee the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The mistakes of Iraq are still fresh in his mind. “It’s not hyperbole to say that it was a life-changing …
How Iraq has changed, and how the war changed people, 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion
U.S. troops left in 2011 but returned as the country was gripped by sectarian bloodshed and the rise of ISIS, and Iraqis struggle to believe the nightmare is over.