Today marks the 25 th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was a momentous event that unleashed a cascade of tragedy that included those who died in Kuwait’s occupation by the Saddam ...

TNSR Production Editor Kerry Anderson talks with historian Daniel Chardell about his article The Origins of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait Reconsidered, published in Volume 6, Issue 3 of TNSR. Daniel ...

March 14 - Following is a chronology of key events in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. March 20, 2003 - U.S. and British forces invade from Kuwait. April 9 - U.S.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six car bombs killed 160 people in a Shi'ite stronghold on Thursday in the bloodiest attack in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion and the authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on a ...

Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq (New York: Penguin, 2024). Was the Iraq War a product of mutual misperception by U.S. and Iraqi ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A timeline of key events in Iraq, beginning with the 2003 U.S.-led invasion up to April 30 national elections. More than 22 million voters will be eligible to cast their ballots to ...

In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. Seventy thousand books were reduced to ashes. Wafaa Bilal, “The Ashes ...

Iraqi MPs have revived efforts to replace Mawtini, renewing debate over whether a new anthem should reflect civic, religious ...