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Iraq war inquiry

October 2023

  • A Solidarity With Palestine march in London on 28 October 2023.

    Why Britain’s politicians shouldn’t rush to take sides in war

    Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Aditya Chakrabortty about protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war

July 2023

  • BBC acting chair Elan Closs Stephens

    Brief letters
    The acting BBC chair isn’t just part of the furniture

    Brief letters: Elan Closs Stephens | Tony Blair and Iraq | Britain abroad | Pacific gains | Dog-unfriendly

March 2023

  • George Monbiot

    The Iraq invasion: 20 years on
    How many of those calling for Putin’s arrest were complicit in the illegal invasion of Iraq?

    George Monbiot
  • The Iraqi capital on the second night of heavy shelling by US cruise missiles and jet fighters, 21 March 2003.

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    ‘The US army destroyed our lives’: five Iraqis on the war that changed the Middle East

  • Rose Gentle

    The Iraq invasion: 20 years on
    I looked at Tony Blair and said: ‘You murdered my son.’ I feel that just as strongly today

    Rose Gentle
  • George W Bush in front of a navy warship

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order

February 2023

  • John Kampfner

    Iraq was a terrible war – but it cannot excuse our failure to confront the tyranny we face today

    John Kampfner
  • Anti-war protesters in London, 15 February 2003

    Millions of us marched over Iraq – and were ignored. Now we have broken politics and endless war

    Lindsey German

November 2022

  • Admiral Sir Michael Boyce at the Ministry of Defence, London, 2000.

    Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce obituary

    Chief of the defence staff who challenged Tony Blair on the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq

July 2022

  • Christopher Meyer in 2009 at the end of his stint as chair of the Press Complaints Commission. Thereafter he wrote and spoke on international affairs, and presented TV documentaries.

    Sir Christopher Meyer obituary

    British ambassador to the US in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq who later served as chair of the Press Complaints Commission

October 2021

  • ALL<br>TGS06 - 20030127 - WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES : US Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks to reporters during a Monday 27 January 2003, press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC. Iraq has `not much more time` to comply with UN resolutions and its opportunity for choosing peaceful disarmament is `fast coming to an end,` Powell said as he gave his reaction to the Iraq weapons inspections report by Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix to the UN Security Council. EPA PHOTO AFPI / TIM SLOAN

    Colin Powell obituary

  • Chilcot Iraq inquiry<br>Sir John Chilcot presents The Iraq Inquiry Report at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday July 6, 2016. The Iraq Inquiry Report into the UK government's involvement in the 2003 Iraq War under the leadership of Tony Blair is published today. The inquiry, which concluded in February 2011, was announced by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009 and is published more than seven years later. See PA story POLITICS Chilcot. Photo credit should read: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire

    Sir John Chilcot obituary

September 2019

  • Keira Knightley.

    Keira Knightley: ‘Iraq was the first time I’d been politically engaged’

  • Katharine Gun, photographed last month in Durham for the Observer New Review.

    Iraq war whistleblower Katharine Gun: ‘Truth always matters’

May 2019

  • British Army soldiers, part of a 'snatch squad', move in to detain an Iraqi man during a violent protest in the southern Iraq city of Basra 29 March 2004.

    Today in Focus
    Historical war crimes: an amnesty for British soldiers?

    Defence secretary Penny Mordaunt has promised to introduce a ‘presumption against prosecution’ on historical prosecutions for military veterans. Samira Shackle looks back at the collapse of the investigation into abuse allegations in Iraq, while Conservative MP Johnny Mercer argues that soldiers have been unfairly hounded. Also today: Emma John looks ahead to the Cricket World Cup

October 2018

  • Iraq’s new prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, with the country’s president, Barham Salih.

    Iraqi president names Adel Abdul-Mahdi as next prime minister

    Appointment of Shia politician by Kurdish president Barham Salih may help tackle country’s civic unrest say lawmakers

July 2018

  • Guantanamo Bay protest

    The Observer view on why Britain’s role in torture must be revealed in full

    The intelligence and security committee has revealed the scale of abuse. We now need an inquiry with access to all witnesses

June 2018

  • John Morrison said, in a phrase that resonated widely with the media, that he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall’ in response to Tony Blair’s claims about weapons of mass destruction

    Other lives
    John Morrison obituary

    Other lives: Senior intelligence analyst who lost his job after speaking out against the case for going to war with Iraq

May 2018

  • Tow men glance through the Iraq war inquiry by John Chilcot

    Government needs to act on key Chilcot inquiry finding, committee warns

    Recommendation of Iraq war inquiry regarding lack of cabinet discussion has not been acted upon, report says

March 2018

  • Marina Hyde

    Corbyn and Blair: are they really so very different?

    Marina Hyde
    Both believe in their own moral infallibility. In the movies, this type of guy redeems himself. In real life, it’s not so simple, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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