The Latest Breaking News from George W Bush

More than 1,000 people have now been charged for the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. NPR has tracked every case from arrest to sentencing. Here's what is happening to those charged.

“Our mission is clear,” declared president George W. Bush following the ground invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”. 

Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had toppled Saddam Hussein. I worked with Salam over the next several years, on my many reporting trips to Iraq, and I can't stop thinking about his personal tragedy…

WASHINGTON — Matthew Hoh was a 28-year-old Marine captain assigned to the Pentagon in late 2002, just as then-President George W. Bush was laying the groundwork for war in Iraq. Like many of his generation, Hoh was steeled in his patriotism by the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, and he…

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

The ex-president is a painter, his VP an avid fly fisher, while Tony Blair has built a property empire. They appear unrepentant

Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.

Two decades ago, U.S. spy agencies wrongly believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction

Letters: Yes, mistakes were made, but the invasion is what an ethical foreign policy looks like, argues Nick Martin-Clark. Plus letters from Dave Headey, Dr Jonathan Punt, Paul Tyler and Gregory Stock

Many Arabs saw Saddam as a strongman who stood up to the West, but most Iraqis despised his brutal authoritarianism.

Ahead of expected Senate passage of a measure that would repeal two decades-old Iraq-related military authorizations, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he sees a strong chance the Republican-controlled House will pass a similar bill.