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This Week in History: From Wimbledon glory to Bin Laden’s ultimatum

Explore how major events between 6 and 12 July were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK · Jul 6

This Week in History: From rigged elections to World Cup fever

Explore how major events between 8 and 14 June were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK · Jun 11

This Week in History: Mafia mozzarella, war in Iraq and a united Germany

Explore how major events between 16 and 22 March were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK · Mar 16

Independent readers pay tribute to ‘lion of truth’ and ‘gifted journalist’ Kim Sengupta

Kim ‘took us to places we didn’t want to be and showed us the horror and the hope’ says our community. Lauren MacDougall shares reader tributes to the award-winning war correspondent following his death

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

Between the ‘new’ Middle East and media’s myopia, a shrinking Palestinian voice

It’s a strange moment in history for a Matryoshka doll of lies that’s usually re-offered swollen with each flare-up in the Israel-Palestine conflict. 

Newslaundry · Oct 14, 2023

How Blair’s ‘dodgy dossier’ was changed after Independent reporter spotted flaw in case for war

Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2023

So where were they, Mr Blair? How The Independent exposed the lie of Saddam’s WMD and the justification for an illegal war

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

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2023

Shock and awe: Robert Fisk’s dispatch as bombs rained down on Baghdad

The Iraq war began 20 years ago with a night of bombing on capital Baghdad – and Robert Fisk was there to witness it all. Here, we reproduce that day’s reports from The Independent’s celebrated Middle East correspondent

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2023

How the Iraq war unfolded – as reported by The Independent

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…

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2023