What happened in Abu Ghraib and why did a US court award damages? | Civil Rights News
A United States jury has ruled that Virginia-based defence contractor CACI must pay $42m to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the Abu Ghraib…
Abu Ghraib torture survivors win US civil case, $42m damages | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
A United States defence contractor must pay $42m to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, a US federal jury has ruled.…
‘Happening again’: Guantanamo victims say Israel using ‘US-style’ torture | Israel-Palestine conflict News
When former Guantanamo detainee Asadullah Haroon looks at pictures of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, the memories of his own abuse and torture in…
War is over in Iraq, but it continues to claim victims | The Iraq War: 20 years on
More than five years after the defeat of ISIL (ISIS) and decades of conflict, Iraq remains scarred by war. A journey through the country is…
Abu Ghraib: Iraqi victims’ case against US contractor ends in mistrial | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
The trial was a historic attempt at justice, marking the first time victims of the abuse that took place at the Abu Ghraib prison in…
The Abu Ghraib abuse scandal 20 years on: What redress for victims? | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
When the US TV news programme 60 Minutes II revealed images of Iraqi men being abused and humiliated by their American jailers at Abu Ghraib…
US has failed to compensate tortured victims of its Iraq prisons: HRW | Human Rights News
Two decades on, the United States has failed to provide redress or compensation to Iraqi victims of its military’s torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib…
Iraq’s Christians fight to save threatened ancient language | ISIL/ISIS
Iraq’s conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying, 2,000-year-old language. Syriac, an ancient dialect of…
Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors? | The Iraq War: 20 years on
Twenty years ago, on May 1, 2003, then-United States President George W Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, a giant banner…
Twenty years after the US invasion, where are Iraq’s antiquities? | The Iraq War: 20 years on
Baghdad, Iraq – Entering the Iraq National Museum in the centre of the capital Baghdad feels like travelling thousands of years back in time. Beyond…
At Rafedin, Iraqi refugee women in Jordan can stitch a future | Refugees
In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael is sewing a shirt for “Rafedin”, a project that has provided dozens of women who fled violence in neighbouring…
Bush did what Putin’s doing — so why is he getting away? | The Iraq War: 20 years on
It was disgracefully dubbed “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the invading United States military forces, but for millions of Iraqis around the world, it was anything…
US Senate votes to advance repeal of Iraq War authorisation | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
The final vote to end two Iraq war authorisations clears a key procedural hurdle, as the Senate decides to limit debate. The United States Senate…
Twenty years on, John Bolton is still defending the US’s Iraq War | The Iraq War: 20 years on
From: UpFront‘It wasn’t flawed intelligence’ that led to the war, says Bolton, a key proponent of the US invasion. John Bolton was a senior adviser…
Paul Bremer on Iraq occupation mistakes and accountability | The Iraq War: 20 years on
From: UpFrontTwenty years on from the US-led invasion, Marc Lamont Hill challenges the man tapped to oversee post-Saddam Iraq. It’s been 20 years since the…
Iraqis still await special US visas 20 years after invasion | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
Abdul Qadir Al-Dulaimi was shot three times — in the head, shoulder and kidney — in what he said was apparent retaliation for his work…
The US-led war in Iraq and Saddam’s Arab legacy | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
In the eyes of many Arabs, Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq, was a true leader who stood up to Western imperialism, the Israeli…
My plagiarised work was used to justify the war on Iraq | The Iraq War: 20 years on
Imagine it is February 5, 2003. The US secretary of state is speaking in front of the United Nations, holding your work in his hands,…
Photos: Iconic images from the Iraq War | The Iraq War: 20 years on News
Twenty years ago on this day, a US-led ground invasion of Iraq began. Death and destruction quickly became a common sight in the country. The…
How to sell a war
The US invasion of Iraq was sold to the world as one thing, but the story changed when the facts didn’t fit the script. Source…