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Published in: Home: FeatureUK accused of ‘washing its hands’ of Iraqi refugees
Just a tenth of Iraqis claiming asylum in the UK have been given refugee status since the war
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Published in: Home: OpinionInvading Iraq is what we did instead of tackling climate change
OPINION: Instead of launching a war, the US and UK could have weaned us off the fossil fuels that pay for the brutal...
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Published in: oDR: Opinion‘20 years after Iraq, progressives must learn its lessons for Ukraine’
Labour MP Clive Lewis: There is a crucial distinction between the UK’s imperialist wars, and Ukraine’s self-defence
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Iraq War 20 years on: End of the US’s post-9/11 neoconservative dream
OPINION: The 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa
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Published in: Home: OpinionAssange extradition is just latest in UK’s crackdown on the free press
Journalism is under attack – yet MPs will line up on Tuesday to pay lip service to ‘World Press Freedom Day’
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about Russia
Those in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs ISIS headed for a third wave of violence?
A recent attack on a prison in Syria and a massacre of Iraqi soldiers have left many fearing ISIS may soon resurface...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy Tony Blair is just the right person to get Britain’s top honour
Blair is responsible for countless war crimes and deaths – just the sort of thing the UK honours system was set up to reward
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAn Iraqi in the capital of the US Empire
Do the people on the street in Washington DC know that their government decimated my home?
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhile the West focused on Afghanistan, ISIS gained ground in Iraq and beyond
For jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as...
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewCass Sunstein: The moment I knew that US democracy was in mortal danger
The world-leading behavourial economist used to think that warnings about the fragility of US democracy were 'crazy...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionKurdish group claims Turkey is using chemical weapons. Why is nobody investigating?
The international community is failing in its duty to investigate allegations that Kurdish forces are being killed...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureSeven years in camps: Life for the abandoned victims of IS
Many thousands of displaced Yazidi survivors are still living in unbearable conditions in Iraq, with no foreseeable way out
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe deadly legacy of 20 years of US 'War on Terror' in Iraq
The occupation of Iraq drained the country’s resources and left a legacy of economic crisis, energy shortages,...
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewA UK government advisor who's changed his mind about the Iraq War
Ed Owen, an advisor to the foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, on why he now feels differently about...
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS defeat in Afghanistan marks the end of neoliberalism
The past 50 years of Western economics are rooted in imperial exploitation. But if the US’s military can be beaten,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionFrom invasion to failed state: Iraq’s democratic disillusionment
Western-style democracy has failed Iraq, bringing a dystopian economy, an ineffectual government and more pain for...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisTurkey’s invasion of northern Iraq could lead to Kurdish civil war
Attendees of a recent peace delegation responding to Turkey’s incursions into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisKilled in the line of duty: the catastrophic deaths of 14,000 Iraqi officers
How and why are so many police officers being killed in Iraq?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIraq: assassinations, repression, and the struggles of daily life
Years of of lethal state failure have devastated the people of Iraq, whose daily life today is fraught with...