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The conflict cost hundreds of thousands of lives, ruined millions more and shook an entire region – and The Independent was one of the few to oppose invasion from the very beginning. From WMDs and ‘sexed-up’ dossiers to whitewashing and ‘we got him’, here’s how Bush and Blair’s doomed war…

On the 20th anniversary of the start of the second Iraq war, the Australian War Memorial reveals that its new gallery marking the conflict will feature anti-war protest material alongside a F/A-18 Hornet.

Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

Twenty years ago a US-led coalition launched its ‘shock and awe’ attack to topple Saddam Hussein. The reverberations are still being felt

Key events in Iraq since US-led forces invaded to oust Saddam Hussein 20 years ago

On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Paul Daley maps out the events leading up to Australia’s involvement and the consequent fallout

President George W. Bush and his administration put forward a variety of reasons to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands

Washington split with old allies in order to pursue its own interests in Iraq, says Guardian chief leader writer Randeep Ramesh