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Iraq War

Joseph Kent appears before a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing for his pending confirmation to be director of the NCTC, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
March 17, 2026, 6:32 pm
A top US counterterror official quits over Iran war, claims Israel tricked Trump into it
Joseph Kent, whose ties to extremists and conspiracy theories drew scrutiny, says US president was ‘deceived’ into launching attack, also says Israel ‘drew’ US into Iraq war
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Demonstrators hold placards at a protest against military action in Iran outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, on March 2, 2026. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)
March 4, 2026, 8:14 pm
The US and Israel are fighting the same war — in opposite political realities
The Iran war is very popular in Israel. In the US it’s deeply unpopular, which could be dangerous for Israel, especially if Americans feel they’re fighting on Jerusalem’s behalf
By Ben Sales
Former British prime minister Tony Blair arrives at a gala at the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires on October 23, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
January 17, 2026, 4:46 pm
With appointment to Gaza peace committee, Tony Blair returns to Middle East limelight
Former British PM was widely criticized for having the UK join the US in its 2003 invasion of Iraq; has remained active in the region as an envoy and consultant
By JO BIDDLE and Alexandra Del Peral
Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, July 26, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)
January 8, 2025, 5:48 pm
Trump posts clip of prof calling Netanyahu ‘obsessive’ about getting US to fight Iran
US president-elect shares without comment a video on Truth Social of Columbia’s Jeffrey Sachs calling PM a ‘deep, dark son of a bitch’ and saying he’s gotten US into ‘endless wars’
By ToI Staff
Retired US General David H. Petraeus speaks at the INSS conference in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2024 (Ronen Topelberg/INSS)
March 15, 2024, 11:32 am
With Iraq on his mind, US ‘savior-general’ points at a way to victory in Gaza
Hamas must be destroyed, argues ex-general and CIA director David Petraeus in Tel Aviv, and then Israel must pivot to a counterinsurgency
By Lazar Berman
A view of the Mosul Museum in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on May 11, 2023 (Waleed AL-KHALED / AFP)
May 11, 2023, 5:59 pm
Mosul Museum to reopen after 20-year closure, Iraq war and Islamic State ransacking
Iraqi officials announce famed museum, currently undergoing rehabilitation with international assistance, will open doors in 2026
By AFP
Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks during an interview in central London on March 17, 2023. (Daniel Leal/AFP)
March 18, 2023, 4:24 pm
Tony Blair: Palestinians should draw lessons from Northern Ireland peace deal
‘They shifted strategy and look at the result,’ former British PM says of pro-Irish side’s decision to lay down arms as part of Good Friday Agreement, ahead of upcoming anniversary
By Jitendra Joshi
Former US president George W. Bush speaks in Dallas, Texas, May 18, 2022 (video screenshot)
May 19, 2022, 12:48 pm
In blunder, Bush pans ‘brutal invasion of Iraq’
Former president makes gaffe while speaking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, then jokes, ‘I’m 75’
By ToI Staff
Former British prime minister Tony Blair is shown ahead of a meeting at the EU Charlemagne building in Brussels, on November 6, 2019. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP)
January 8, 2022, 10:47 pm
1 million sign petition to strip Tony Blair of knighthood over Iraq War
In petition backed by Labour MP, former British PM accused of being ‘personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives’
By ToI Staff
Then-US secretary of state Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council, on February 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
October 18, 2021, 11:50 pm
‘He lied’: Many Iraqis still blame Colin Powell for role in Iraq war
Former US secretary of state remembered for speech to UN justifying 2003 invasion: ‘A whole country was destroyed, and we continue to pay the price’
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Zeina Karam
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses a press conference at Katunayake Military Airport in Colombo, January 7, 2005. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP)
October 18, 2021, 4:31 pm
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of COVID at 84
US war hero’s family says he was fully vaccinated, but succumbed to complications of COVID-19
By Frankie TAGGART
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from left, Sen. Ben Cardin, Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Jim Risch, meet on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
August 4, 2021, 9:29 pm
US Senate committee votes to advance bill repealing Iraq war powers
Republican opponents argue that revoking the two authorizations would signal American weakness to Iran
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
March 3, 2021, 6:31 pm
US contractor dies of heart attack during rocket onslaught at Iraq base
Pentagon says contractor ‘suffered a cardiac episode while sheltering’; no one claims responsibility for attack
By SAMYA KULLAB and Lolita C. Baldor
US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on January 25, 2021. (Jim Watson/AFP)
January 28, 2021, 7:51 pm
Biden’s first phone calls show where he’s looking — and it’s not at Israel
Unlike his predecessors, the US president has not called Middle East leaders in his first days, likely indicating what his administration will focus on: Neighbors and NATO
By Lazar Berman
US Marine carries a sand bag during the reinforcement of the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, January 4, 2020. (US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kyle C. Talbot via AP)
November 18, 2020, 3:00 am
Pentagon to slash troop levels in Iraq, Afghanistan by January, despite warnings
Trump administration moves to fulfill president’s pledge to withdraw soldiers from overseas, as Republicans, US allies, senior military leaders voice opposition to pullout
By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor
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