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Starmer marched against the war in 2003 and called it a “breach of international law”. Now he prefers to ignore it

Speaking to the Mirror to mark the 20th anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Rose Gentle has said the memories of her son, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, will never die but that Sir Tony Blair is to blame for his death

Tony Blair’s decision to invade tore at successive Labour leaders and weakened the intelligence services

The Independent titles vigorously opposed the Iraq war long before others saw the error of their support: Then-editor Tristan Davies reveals how, one month into the conflict, The Independent on Sunday became the first to highlight the failure to find weapons of mass destruction

Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war

On March 20, 2003, the U.S. carried out its first airstrikes in Iraq.

Watch the scene live from Baghdad as the country marks the 20-year anniversary since the breakout of the Iraq war.

Vladimir Putin visits Mariupol, Marles says Iraq war opponents have been vindicated and NSW election nears

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…