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It will continue at times and places of our choosing,\" Biden warned, adding, \u201clet all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.\u201d He and other top U.S. leaders had been saying for days that any American response wouldn't be just one hit but a \u201ctiered response\u201d over time. \n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the targets \"were carefully selected to avoid civilian casualties and based on clear, irrefutable evidence that they were connected to attacks on U.S. personnel in the region.\u201d He declined to detail what that evidence was. \n\nSyrian state media reported that there were casualties but did not give a number. 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With multiple groups operating at various locations in several countries, a knockout blow is unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Though one of the main Iran-backed militias, Kataib Hezbollah, said it was suspending attacks on American troops, others have vowed to continue fighting, casting themselves as champions of the Palestinian cause while the war in Gaza shows no sign of ending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing,\" Biden warned, adding, \u201clet all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.\u201d He and other top U.S. leaders had been saying for days that any American response wouldn't be just one hit but a \u201ctiered response\u201d over time.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the targets \"were carefully selected to avoid civilian casualties and based on clear, irrefutable evidence that they were connected to attacks on U.S. personnel in the region.\u201d He declined to detail what that evidence was.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian state media reported that there were casualties but did not give a number. 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war.","keySentence":"","url":"iraq-and-us-begin-formal-talks-to-end-coalition-formed-to-fight-islamic-state","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/01\/28\/iraq-and-us-begin-formal-talks-to-end-coalition-formed-to-fight-islamic-state","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United States and Iraq have held a first session of formal talks in Baghdad aimed at winding down the mission of the US-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq. \n\nIraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement that he had sponsored \u201cthe commencement of the first round of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the United States of America to end the mission of the Coalition in Iraq.\" \n\nA statement released by the coalition said that working groups made up of Iraqi and coalition military officials will assess \u201cthe threat of Daesh (IS), operational and environmental requirements and Iraqi Security Force capabilities\" and a higher military commission will 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Although all US combat forces left in 2011, thousands of troops returned in 2014 to help the government of Iraq defeat IS. \n\nSince the extremist group lost its hold on the territory it once seized, Iraqi officials have periodically called for a withdrawal of coalition forces, particularly in the wake of a US airstrike in January 2020 that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis outside Baghdad airport. \n\nThe issue has surfaced again since Israel launched its major counteroffensive in Gaza following the 7 October Hamas-led attack in southern Israel. \n\nSince mid-October, a group of Iran-backed militias calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have launched regular attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria, which the group said are in retaliation for Washington\u2019s support for Israel in the war in Gaza. \n\nThose estimated 2,500 US troops and the bases they serve on have drawn more than 150 missile and drone attacks fired by the militias. Scores of US personnel have been wounded, including some with traumatic brain injuries, during the attacks. \n\nThe US has struck militia targets in return, including some linked to the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a coalition of mainly Shiite, Iran-backed paramilitary groups that is officially under the control of the Iraqi military. But it largely operates on its own in practice. Iraqi officials have complained that the US strikes are a violation of Iraq's sovereignty. \n\nUS officials have said that talks about setting up a committee to decide on the framework for ending the coalition\u2019s mission were already underway before 7 October and the decision is unrelated to the attacks. \n\nThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq nevertheless took credit for the decision in a statement, saying that it \u201cproves that the Americans only understand the language of force.\u201d \n\nIt vowed to continue its attacks. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United States and Iraq have held a first session of formal talks in Baghdad aimed at winding down the mission of the US-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement that he had sponsored \u201cthe commencement of the first round of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the United States of America to end the mission of the Coalition in Iraq.\"<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by the coalition said that working groups made up of Iraqi and coalition military officials will assess \u201cthe threat of Daesh (IS), operational and environmental requirements and Iraqi Security Force capabilities\" and a higher military commission will \u201cwork to set the conditions to transition the mission in Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of talks comes as US forces in Iraq and Syria have been regularly targeted by drone attacks launched by Iran-backed militias against the backdrop of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1744664734966657264\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The US says plans to set up a committee to negotiate the terms of the mission\u2019s end were first discussed last year - and the timing isn't related to the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has had a continuous presence in Iraq since its 2003 invasion. 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The fire happened in the Hamdaniya area of Iraq\u2019s Nineveh province, authorities said. That's a predominantly Christian area just outside the city of Mosul, some 335 kilometres northwest of Baghdad. \n\nThere was no official word on the cause of the blaze, but the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw aired footage showing fireworks shooting up from the floor of the event and setting a chandelier aflame. \n\nIn the blaze\u2019s aftermath, only charred metal and debris could be seen as people walked through the scene of the fire, the only light coming from television cameras and the lights of onlookers\u2019 mobile phones. \n\nSurvivors arrived at local hospitals in bandages, receiving oxygen as their families milled through hallways and outside as workers organized more oxygen cylinders. Some of those burned included children. Ambulance sirens wailed for hours after the fire as paramedics brought out the injured. \n\nOther footage shown on other local television networks appeared to show the bride and groom on the dance floor when the fire began Tuesday night, stunned by the sight of the burning debris. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if they were among those hurt. \n\nHealth officials in Nineveh province raised the death toll to 114, though federal officials did not immediately update their figure of at least 100 killed. Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr put the number of injured at 150 in that earlier statement carried by the state-run Iraqi News Agency. \n\n\u201cAll efforts are being made to provide relief to those affected by the unfortunate accident,\u201d al-Badr said. \n\nAhmed Dubardani, a health official in the province, told Rudaw that many of those injured suffered serious burns. \n\n\u201cThe majority of them were completely burned and some others had 50 to 60% of their bodies burned,\" Dubardani said. \u201cThis is not good at all. The majority of them were not in good condition.\u201d \n\nInvestigation underway \n\nPrime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered an investigation into the fire and asked the country's Interior and Health officials to provide relief, his office said in a statement online. \n\nNajim al-Jubouri, the provincial governor of Nineveh, said some of the injured had been transferred to regional hospitals. He cautioned there were no final casualty figures yet from the blaze, which suggests the death toll still may rise. \n\nHamdaniya is on Iraq's Nineveh Plains and under the control of its central government, though it is close to and claimed by Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish regional government. Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdish region, ordered hospitals there to also help those hurt in the blaze. \n\nFather Rudi Saffar Khoury, a priest at the wedding, said it was unclear who was to blame for the fire. \n\n\u201cIt could be a mistake by the event organizers or venue hosts, or maybe a technical error,\u201d Khoury told The Associated Press. \u201cIt was a disaster in every sense of the word.\u201d \n\nCivil defence officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall's exterior as decorated with highly flammable cladding that is illegal in the country. \n\n\u201cThe fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall as a result of the use of highly flammable, low-cost building materials that collapse within minutes when the fire breaks out,\u201d the civil defence said. \n\nCorruption and mismanagement \n\nIt wasn't immediately clear why authorities in Iraq allowed the cladding to be used on the hall, though corruption and mismanagement remain endemic two decades after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. \n\nWhile some types of cladding can be made with fire-resistant material, experts say those that have caught fire at the wedding hall and elsewhere weren\u2019t designed to meet stricter safety standards and often were put onto buildings without any breaks to slow or halt a possible blaze. That includes the 2017 Grenfell Fire in London that killed 72 people in the greatest loss of life in a fire on British soil since World War II, as well as multiple high-rise fires in the United Arab Emirates. \n\nOver the past two decades, Iraq\u2019s Christian minority has been violently targeted by extremists first from al-Qaida and then the Islamic State militant group. Although the Nineveh Plains, the historic homeland, was wrested back from the Islamic State group six years ago, some towns are still mostly rubble and lack basic services. Many Christians have left for Europe, Australia or the United States. \n\nThe number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq\u2019s total population is more than 40 million. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least nine people have been arrested following a fire at a Christian wedding in Iraq that claimed more than a hundred lives<\/p>\n<p>General Saad Maan, of the Interior Ministry, told AFP nine employees were arrested and \u201cfour arrest warrants were issued against the owners\u201d of the wedding venue.<\/p>\n<p>A raging fire seemingly caused by fireworks set off to celebrate a wedding consumed a hall packed with guests in northern Iraq, killing at least 100 people and injuring 150 others as authorities warned Wednesday the death toll could still rise. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that flammable building materials also contributed to the latest disaster to hit Iraq\u2019s dwindling Christian minority. The fire happened in the Hamdaniya area of Iraq\u2019s Nineveh province, authorities said. That's a predominantly Christian area just outside the city of Mosul, some 335 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>There was no official word on the cause of the blaze, but the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw aired footage showing fireworks shooting up from the floor of the event and setting a chandelier aflame.<\/p>\n<p>In the blaze\u2019s aftermath, only charred metal and debris could be seen as people walked through the scene of the fire, the only light coming from television cameras and the lights of onlookers\u2019 mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors arrived at local hospitals in bandages, receiving oxygen as their families milled through hallways and outside as workers organized more oxygen cylinders. Some of those burned included children. Ambulance sirens wailed for hours after the fire as paramedics brought out the injured.<\/p>\n<p>Other footage shown on other local television networks appeared to show the bride and groom on the dance floor when the fire began Tuesday night, stunned by the sight of the burning debris. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if they were among those hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials in Nineveh province raised the death toll to 114, though federal officials did not immediately update their figure of at least 100 killed. Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr put the number of injured at 150 in that earlier statement carried by the state-run Iraqi News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll efforts are being made to provide relief to those affected by the unfortunate accident,\u201d al-Badr said.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Dubardani, a health official in the province, told Rudaw that many of those injured suffered serious burns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of them were completely burned and some others had 50 to 60% of their bodies burned,\" Dubardani said. \u201cThis is not good at all. The majority of them were not in good condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation underway<\/h3><p>Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered an investigation into the fire and asked the country's Interior and Health officials to provide relief, his office said in a statement online.<\/p>\n<p>Najim al-Jubouri, the provincial governor of Nineveh, said some of the injured had been transferred to regional hospitals. He cautioned there were no final casualty figures yet from the blaze, which suggests the death toll still may rise.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdaniya is on Iraq's Nineveh Plains and under the control of its central government, though it is close to and claimed by Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish regional government. Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdish region, ordered hospitals there to also help those hurt in the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Father Rudi Saffar Khoury, a priest at the wedding, said it was unclear who was to blame for the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be a mistake by the event organizers or venue hosts, or maybe a technical error,\u201d Khoury told The Associated Press. \u201cIt was a disaster in every sense of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Civil defence officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall's exterior as decorated with highly flammable cladding that is illegal in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall as a result of the use of highly flammable, low-cost building materials that collapse within minutes when the fire breaks out,\u201d the civil defence said.<\/p>\n<h3>Corruption and mismanagement<\/h3><p>It wasn't immediately clear why authorities in Iraq allowed the cladding to be used on the hall, though corruption and mismanagement remain endemic two decades after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>While some types of cladding can be made with fire-resistant material, experts say those that have caught fire at the wedding hall and elsewhere weren\u2019t designed to meet stricter safety standards and often were put onto buildings without any breaks to slow or halt a possible blaze. 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But the country's citizens see little benefit, with power cuts commonplace in many parts of the country. \n\nBillions of dollars worth of revenue is either syphoned off through corruption or fail to reach the national coffers. \n\nMilitias continue to dominate parts of the country and the creation of lasting and stable governments is proving elusive. \n\nHigh youth unemployment leaves millions of people with little prospect for the future. \n\n\"Iraqi youth have made it clear in recent years that they don't want to have a regime that is divided along religious lines,\u201d said political scientist Asiem El Difraoui, of the Candid Foundation in Berlin. \n\n\u201cThey don't want to have a regime that only works through clientelism, corruption, politics, but there is a new form, especially among younger people, of Iraqi nationalism.\u201d \n\nHowever, there is also a brain drain, with many young Iraqis leaving the country, many with painful memories of childhoods marked by terror and bloodshed. \n\nThe agency AFP interviewed Zulfokar Hassan, who was born two years before the American-led invasion. \n\nHe was a young child when his mother woke him in the middle of the night so they could hide in the bathroom during a US forces raid in their Baghdad neighbourhood. \n\n\"The houses around us were collapsing,\" he recalled about the battle on September 6, 2007, when US helicopters and tanks targeting Shiite militants killed 14 civilians in the Al-Washash district. \n\nThe next day, the seven-year-old boy looked around the rooftop terrace where the family usually slept in the blistering summer months. \n\n\"There was shrapnel, our mattresses were burned,\" recalled Hassan, now a calligraphy student. \n\nLike many from his generation, he tells his story in the detached tone of someone for whom street battles, car bombs and corpses lying on the road were the tragic backdrops of daily life. \n\n\"Throughout our childhood we were terrified,\" he said. \"We were afraid to go to the toilet at night, no one could sleep alone in a room.\" \n\nOne of his uncles has been missing since 2006. He left in his car to shop for food and never came back. \n\nIn late 2019, Zulfokar joined the sweeping, youth-led demonstrations against endemic misrule and corruption, crumbling infrastructure and unemployment. \n\n\"But I stopped,\" he said, recounting the crackdown that killed hundreds. \"I had lost hope. I saw young people like me dying, and we were helpless. \n\n\"Martyrs have been sacrificed, without result and without change.\" \n\nDespite this, he said he has no plans to emigrate, as so many other disillusioned Iraqis have. Otherwise, he asked, \"who would be left?\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country remains mired in corruption, political instability and violence.<\/p>\n<p>According to OPEC, the Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries, Iraq has the world\u2019s fourth largest reserves after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran. But the country's citizens see little benefit, with power cuts commonplace in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Billions of dollars worth of revenue is either syphoned off through corruption or fail to reach the national coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Militias continue to dominate parts of the country and the creation of lasting and stable governments is proving elusive.<\/p>\n<p>High youth unemployment leaves millions of people with little prospect for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\"Iraqi youth have made it clear in recent years that they don't want to have a regime that is divided along religious lines,\u201d said political scientist Asiem El Difraoui, of the Candid Foundation in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don't want to have a regime that only works through clientelism, corruption, politics, but there is a new form, especially among younger people, of Iraqi nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, there is also a brain drain, with many young Iraqis leaving the country, many with painful memories of childhoods marked by terror and bloodshed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//46//36//30//808x454_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg/" alt=\"AFP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/384x216_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/640x360_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/750x422_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/828x466_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/1080x608_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/1200x675_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/36\/30\/1920x1080_cmsv2_3532944e-ecda-5a8f-a800-783f092fdb0e-7463630.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Zulfokar Hassan, 22, recalls his childhood in Baghdad<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AFP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The agency AFP interviewed Zulfokar Hassan, who was born two years before the American-led invasion.<\/p>\n<p>He was a young child when his mother woke him in the middle of the night so they could hide in the bathroom during a US forces raid in their Baghdad neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\"The houses around us were collapsing,\" he recalled about the battle on September 6, 2007, when US helicopters and tanks targeting Shiite militants killed 14 civilians in the Al-Washash district.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the seven-year-old boy looked around the rooftop terrace where the family usually slept in the blistering summer months.<\/p>\n<p>\"There was shrapnel, our mattresses were burned,\" recalled Hassan, now a calligraphy student.<\/p>\n<p>Like many from his generation, he tells his story in the detached tone of someone for whom street battles, car bombs and corpses lying on the road were the tragic backdrops of daily life.<\/p>\n<p>\"Throughout our childhood we were terrified,\" he said. \"We were afraid to go to the toilet at night, no one could sleep alone in a room.\"<\/p>\n<p>One of his uncles has been missing since 2006. He left in his car to shop for food and never came back.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2019, Zulfokar joined the sweeping, youth-led demonstrations against endemic misrule and corruption, crumbling infrastructure and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\"But I stopped,\" he said, recounting the crackdown that killed hundreds. \"I had lost hope. I saw young people like me dying, and we were helpless.<\/p>\n<p>\"Martyrs have been sacrificed, without result and without change.\"<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, he said he has no plans to emigrate, as so many other disillusioned Iraqis have. 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IRAQ VETERANS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Plunging a country into chaos': What lessons have been learned 20 years after the invasion of Iraq?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"20 years since the invasion of Iraq: What lessons have been learned?","titleListing2":"On 20 March 2003, US-led coalition forces began their ground invasion of Iraq, Two decades on, Euronews speaks to veterans about their experiences of the war.","leadin":"Two decades on since US-led coalition forces began their ground invasion of Iraq, Euronews speaks to veterans about their experiences of the war.","summary":"Two decades on since US-led coalition forces began their ground invasion of Iraq, Euronews speaks to veterans about their experiences of the war.","keySentence":"","url":"plunging-a-country-into-chaos-what-lessons-have-been-learned-20-years-after-the-invasion-o","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/03\/20\/plunging-a-country-into-chaos-what-lessons-have-been-learned-20-years-after-the-invasion-o","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\u201cThe people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder,\u201d announced then-US President George W. Bush from the White House Oval Office on 20 March 2003, as US-led coalition forces began their ground offensive in Iraq. \n\nTheir objectives were to destroy Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and bring down the dictatorial rule of Iraq\u2019s President Saddam Hussein. \n\nIt took just nine months for US forces to capture Hussein. He was executed three years later for \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d \n\nBut the question of Iraq\u2019s alleged possession of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons became increasingly contentious. The failure of inspectors to locate the alleged WMDs led to mounting scepticism over the legitimacy of claims made by the Bush administration in October 2002. \n\nBy the time the last US troops left Iraq in December 2011 - more than nine years after the invasion began - 4,490 American troops, 179 British service personnel, and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed. No evidence of WMDs with nuclear delivery capabilities was ever found. \n\nIn the UK in 2016, Sir John Chilcot released a damning inquiry on Prime Minister Tony Blair\u2019s decision to commit troops to Iraq, in which he concluded that opportunities for peace were missed, the threat posed by Saddam Hussein had been exaggerated, and that intelligence on Iraq\u2019s alleged possession of WMDs was \u201cflawed.\u201d \n\nTwenty years on, what lessons have been learned? Two Iraq War veterans gave us their take on the invasion and its aftermath. \n\nMemories of the invasion \n\nFollowing a series of airstrikes against \"selected targets of military importance\", US-led forces began their ground offensive in Iraq, which President Bush described as the start of \"a broad and concerted campaign.\"\u00a0 \n\n\u201cThe crucial thing is that it all happened way ahead of our expectation,\" former British Army Officer, Colonel Tim Collins, told Euronews.\u00a0 \n\n\"It was supposed to happen on about the 24th (March). And so we thought we had some days in hand. [...] So it kind of caught us off guard. But it was a good way to start because there wasn't much time to think about it. [...] We quickly were given instructions to get ready to leave our bases and head to dispersal positions. And within 24 hours of that, we were crossing the border.\u201d \n\n\u201cThere wasn't a great deal of fighting to start with. [...] And so it was very much a question of taking over the large number of prisoners of war who were coming in and surrendering to us, finding some water, some food for them, and at the same time our job was to secure the gas oil separation plants on the Iraqi southern oil fields.\u201d \n\n\"We were under incoming fire on an almost daily basis on some of the deployments I was on [...] I learned a lot about myself and a lot about other people,\" explained British Army veteran David Hornsby, who served five tours of Iraq as an emergency nurse. \n\n\"And I learned a lot about looking after both my troops and the casualties I was assigned to. So I think both professionally and personally, I grew a lot from my experiences.\" \n\nWhat were forces told about why they were in Iraq? \n\nAt the time of the invasion, the White House had repeatedly stated that the decision to go to war was based upon Saddam Hussein's alleged possession and development of WMDs and his ties to the militant Islamist group, al-Qaeda. \n\n\"[What we were told] was very consistent with the information that the general public was being told, and that was very much based around weapons of mass destruction and the intelligence that the Americans and the British both announced prior to the invasion,\" said David Hornsby. \n\n\u201cThere was a great deal of confusion [\u2026] and it was very much centred around the snippets to do with weapons of mass destruction,\" revealed Colonel Tim Collins.\u00a0 \n\n\"But it became clear, although it was never tacitly stated, that regime change was the aim. So, there was no real clarity about what the aim was, but there was a continuing threat of weapons of mass destruction,\" Collins added. \n\nDoubt over WMD claims \n\nIn the months and years leading up to the invasion, UN inspectors had been unable to locate Iraqi WMDs. \n\nBy 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that the US-led war in Iraq was illegal, in violation of the UN\u2019s founding charter and had not been sanctioned by the UN Security Council. \n\n\u201cThe simple fact is that they were undoubtedly in possession of chemical weapons and nerve agents because they\u2019d used them against the Kurds already. So, we knew that it was a fact,\" Collins told Euronews. \n\n\"And the question mark hanging over whether they had a nuclear capability and, if they had a nuclear capability, did they have a nuclear-delivery capability, of course, that didn't become evident until six months to a year after the invasion. So, at the time, it really wasn't an issue. When we crossed the border initially, we were carrying chemical and biological warfare equipment and wearing protective suits, and then we had respirators with us.\u201d \n\nProblems with the campaign in Iraq \n\nTwo months into the invasion, General Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, announced the decision to disband the Iraqi army, and abolish Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. Tim Collins told Euronews that this decision proved extremely counterproductive, and revealed shortcomings in the coalition governments.\u00a0 \n\n\"By sacking all the members of the Ba\u2019ath Party, it didn't occur to them that you couldn't be a schoolteacher, a policeman, an electricity worker, a water worker or anybody to do with infrastructure or maintenance if you weren't in the Ba\u2019ath Party,\" explained Colonel Tim Collins.\u00a0 \n\n\"So, they pretty much sacked everybody who was able to make Iraq function. At the same time, by disbanding the army, they turned what was a relatively effective, well-disciplined army into an extremely effective insurgency.\u201d \n\n\u201cAt the time we were simply doing our jobs and I made the fatal error of supposing that if I got on, did my job as a soldier on the ground, someone in government either in the UK or the US, had some form of plan for what would happen once we had secured Iraq,\"\u00a0the former British army officer admitted. \n\n\"Now, previous to that,\u00a0 my job before taking command of my battalion, was working in headquarters, Special Forces, and we were certainly conducting information operations against the Iraqi regime. And the main thrust of those operations was to try and secure the support of the Iraqi military for them to remove Saddam Hussein. And the recognition that if his regime fell, [...] it would come to the Iraqi military to provide the security and structure for long enough for civilian elections to be held for a legitimate new Iraqi government to come along. And that was my understanding. So, we all assumed that someone had a plan. We didn't realise there was no plan.\u201d \n\nLessons learned from the Iraq war \n\nTwo decades later, war rages on the European continent, leading many to reflect on what lessons, if any, can be taken from the conflict in Iraq. \n\nAccording to David Hornsby, the treatment of wounded soldiers in Iraq helped bring about important medical discoveries that will help treat service personnel in future conflicts. \n\n\u201cThe conflict in Iraq led to some amazing medical advances in terms of care for traumatic injuries [\u2026] So I think there's this scope and I'm sure there are already ongoing discussions between health bodies such as the NHS and Ukraine in order to share lessons learned,\" Hornsby explained. \n\nColonel Tim Collins told Euronews that, as far as the war in Ukraine is concerned, the Iraq conflict revealed the importance of dialogue with people who understand the country you're invading.\u00a0 \n\n\"My full expectation is that the Russian losses and the reverses they're suffering may well lead to a collapse in the regime in Moscow.\u00a0If that is the case, then I think we in the West need to be ready to work closely with the remnants of the Russian military to maintain\u00a0peace and stability within that country until such time as [...] elections can be organised and run, and a democratically-elected government can be put in place,\" he explained.\u00a0 \n\n\"At the same time, we must be ready immediately to provide the wherewithal and the financial support to get normal life going as quickly as possible, which is something we didn't do in Iraq. It's something we didn't do when the Soviet Union collapsed. And I think we need to learn these lessons and be ready to be very generous, very quickly, so that normality can [...] fill the vacuum left behind by the previous regime.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>\u201cThe people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder,\u201d announced then-US President George W. Bush from the White House Oval Office on 20 March 2003, as US-led coalition forces began their ground offensive in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Their objectives were to destroy Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and bring down the dictatorial rule of Iraq\u2019s President Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>It took just nine months for US forces to capture Hussein. He was executed three years later for \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the question of Iraq\u2019s alleged possession of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons became increasingly contentious. The failure of inspectors to locate the alleged WMDs led to mounting scepticism over the legitimacy of claims made by the Bush administration in October 2002.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the last US troops left Iraq in December 2011 - more than nine years after the invasion began - 4,490 American troops, 179 British service personnel, and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed. No evidence of WMDs with nuclear delivery capabilities was ever found.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK in 2016, Sir John Chilcot released a damning inquiry on Prime Minister Tony Blair\u2019s decision to commit troops to Iraq, in which he concluded that opportunities for peace were missed, the threat posed by Saddam Hussein had been exaggerated, and that intelligence on Iraq\u2019s alleged possession of WMDs was \u201cflawed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years on, what lessons have been learned? Two Iraq War veterans gave us their take on the invasion and its aftermath.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Memories of the invasion<\/strong><\/h2><p>Following a series of airstrikes against \"selected targets of military importance\", US-led forces began their ground offensive in Iraq, which President Bush described as the start of \"a broad and concerted campaign.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crucial thing is that it all happened way ahead of our expectation,\" former British Army Officer, Colonel Tim Collins, told Euronews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"It was supposed to happen on about the 24th (March). And so we thought we had some days in hand. [...] So it kind of caught us off guard. But it was a good way to start because there wasn't much time to think about it. [...] We quickly were given instructions to get ready to leave our bases and head to dispersal positions. And within 24 hours of that, we were crossing the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn't a great deal of fighting to start with. [...] And so it was very much a question of taking over the large number of prisoners of war who were coming in and surrendering to us, finding some water, some food for them, and at the same time our job was to secure the gas oil separation plants on the Iraqi southern oil fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">We all assumed that someone had a plan. We didn't realise there was no plan.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Colonel Tim Collins\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Former British Army Officer\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We were under incoming fire on an almost daily basis on some of the deployments I was on [...] I learned a lot about myself and a lot about other people,\" explained British Army veteran David Hornsby, who served five tours of Iraq as an emergency nurse.<\/p>\n<p>\"And I learned a lot about looking after both my troops and the casualties I was assigned to. So I think both professionally and personally, I grew a lot from my experiences.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What were forces told about why they were in Iraq?<\/strong><\/h2><p>At the time of the invasion, the White House had repeatedly stated that the decision to go to war was based upon Saddam Hussein's alleged possession and development of WMDs and his ties to the militant Islamist group, al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6689285714285714\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//46//37//16//808x542_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg/" alt=\"JEROME DELAY\/AP2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/384x257_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/640x428_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/750x502_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/828x554_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1080x722_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1200x803_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1920x1284_cmsv2_603cc89a-a5a9-5e92-b96e-9627f0c7f196-7463716.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, in this April 9, 2003<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">JEROME DELAY\/AP2003<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"[What we were told] was very consistent with the information that the general public was being told, and that was very much based around weapons of mass destruction and the intelligence that the Americans and the British both announced prior to the invasion,\" said David Hornsby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a great deal of confusion [\u2026] and it was very much centred around the snippets to do with weapons of mass destruction,\" revealed Colonel Tim Collins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"But it became clear, although it was never tacitly stated, that regime change was the aim. So, there was no real clarity about what the aim was, but there was a continuing threat of weapons of mass destruction,\" Collins added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"2858719\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2017//02//22//beauty-from-bombs-an-iraqi-artist-makes-the-most-of-the-detritus-of-war/">Beauty from bombs - An Iraqi artist makes the most of the detritus of war<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Doubt over WMD claims<\/strong><\/h2><p>In the months and years leading up to the invasion, UN inspectors had been unable to locate Iraqi WMDs.<\/p>\n<p>By 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that the US-led war in Iraq was illegal, in violation of the UN\u2019s founding charter and had not been sanctioned by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple fact is that they were undoubtedly in possession of chemical weapons and nerve agents because they\u2019d used them against the Kurds already. So, we knew that it was a fact,\" Collins told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"And the question mark hanging over whether they had a nuclear capability and, if they had a nuclear capability, did they have a nuclear-delivery capability, of course, that didn't become evident until six months to a year after the invasion. So, at the time, it really wasn't an issue. When we crossed the border initially, we were carrying chemical and biological warfare equipment and wearing protective suits, and then we had respirators with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Problems with the campaign in Iraq<\/strong><\/h2><p>Two months into the invasion, General Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, announced the decision to disband the Iraqi army, and abolish Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. Tim Collins told Euronews that this decision proved extremely counterproductive, and revealed shortcomings in the coalition governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">\"If you want to just plunge a country into chaos, I couldn't think of a better way to do it than what they did.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Colonel Tim Collins\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Former British Army Officer\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"By sacking all the members of the Ba\u2019ath Party, it didn't occur to them that you couldn't be a schoolteacher, a policeman, an electricity worker, a water worker or anybody to do with infrastructure or maintenance if you weren't in the Ba\u2019ath Party,\" explained Colonel Tim Collins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"So, they pretty much sacked everybody who was able to make Iraq function. At the same time, by disbanding the army, they turned what was a relatively effective, well-disciplined army into an extremely effective insurgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.702\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//46//37//16//808x569_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg/" alt=\"JEROME DELAY\/AP2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/384x270_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/640x449_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/750x527_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/828x581_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1080x758_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1200x842_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1920x1348_cmsv2_54573ce5-df79-5eb2-b566-1cfc8f360684-7463716.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A portrait of Saddam Hussein still hangs on the burning Ministry of Transport and Communication building in Baghdad, April 9, 2003<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">JEROME DELAY\/AP2003<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the time we were simply doing our jobs and I made the fatal error of supposing that if I got on, did my job as a soldier on the ground, someone in government either in the UK or the US, had some form of plan for what would happen once we had secured Iraq,\"\u00a0the former British army officer admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\"Now, previous to that,\u00a0 my job before taking command of my battalion, was working in headquarters, Special Forces, and we were certainly conducting information operations against the Iraqi regime. And the main thrust of those operations was to try and secure the support of the Iraqi military for them to remove Saddam Hussein. And the recognition that if his regime fell, [...] it would come to the Iraqi military to provide the security and structure for long enough for civilian elections to be held for a legitimate new Iraqi government to come along. And that was my understanding. So, we all assumed that someone had a plan. We didn't realise there was no plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lessons learned from the Iraq war<\/strong><\/h2><p>Two decades later, war rages on the European continent, leading many to reflect on what lessons, if any, can be taken from the conflict in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>According to David Hornsby, the treatment of wounded soldiers in Iraq helped bring about important medical discoveries that will help treat service personnel in future conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conflict in Iraq led to some amazing medical advances in terms of care for traumatic injuries [\u2026] So I think there's this scope and I'm sure there are already ongoing discussions between health bodies such as the NHS and Ukraine in order to share lessons learned,\" Hornsby explained.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">\"I'm sure the service charities will be more than happy to advise and support Ukraine because they'll have their own cohort of veterans that need help for the rest of their lives.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n David Hornsby\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n British Army Veteran\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7096666666666667\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//46//37//16//808x573_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg/" alt=\"JEROME DELAY\/AP2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/384x273_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/640x454_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/750x532_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/828x588_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1080x766_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1200x852_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/37\/16\/1920x1363_cmsv2_fac310ac-368e-51ab-b4b3-c4e5eee2861f-7463716.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, March 31, 2003.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">JEROME DELAY\/AP2003<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Colonel Tim Collins told Euronews that, as far as the war in Ukraine is concerned, the Iraq conflict revealed the importance of dialogue with people who understand the country you're invading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"My full expectation is that the Russian losses and the reverses they're suffering may well lead to a collapse in the regime in Moscow.\u00a0If that is the case, then I think we in the West need to be ready to work closely with the remnants of the Russian military to maintain\u00a0peace and stability within that country until such time as [...] elections can be organised and run, and a democratically-elected government can be put in place,\" he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"At the same time, we must be ready immediately to provide the wherewithal and the financial support to get normal life going as quickly as possible, which is something we didn't do in Iraq. 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- Iraq casualties","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Staggering impact of war in Iraq and Syria laid bare in report","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"","titleListing2":"Staggering impact of war in Iraq and Syria laid bare in report","leadin":"Twenty years of fighting in the Middle East cost a shocking amount of \"blood and treasure\", a new report has found.","summary":"Twenty years of fighting in the Middle East cost a shocking amount of \"blood and treasure\", a new report has found.","keySentence":"","url":"staggering-impact-of-war-in-iraq-and-syria-laid-bare-in-report","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/03\/16\/staggering-impact-of-war-in-iraq-and-syria-laid-bare-in-report","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The devastating impact of war in Iraq and Syria has been revealed in a new report.\u00a0 \n\nAccording to the Cost of War Project , hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced and trillions of dollars have been spent, following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.\u00a0 \n\nThe study -- published on Wednesday -- comes ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the start of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', commonly known as the Iraq war.\u00a0 \n\nIt found that more than half a million human lives have been lost in Iraq and Syria as a direct result of the violence, while \"several times\" that number may have died due to knock-on effects, such as preventable diseases. \n\nMany civilians were killed by aerial bombing, fires, shelling, gunshots, and suicide attacks. \n\nOthers died as systems providing food, health care and clean drinking water were destroyed, fuelling illness, infectious diseases and malnutrition that could have been avoided or treated. \n\nThe report also highlighted the bruising impact of the war on US coffers.\u00a0 \n\nIt is estimated to have already hit American taxpayers with a $1.79 trillion (\u20ac1.68 trillion) bill.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, due to the costs of medical and disability care for veterans, this figure is expected to soar to $2.89 trillion (\u20ac2.71 trillion) by 2050.\u00a0 \n\nNearly 32,000 personnel within the US army were wounded in action in Iraq, according to the US Department of Defence.\u00a0 \n\nTen times that number were found to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in a 2008 study.\u00a0 \n\nThe Cost of War study -- titled \"blood and treasure\" -- found that more than 7 million people from Iraq and Syria are currently refugees, while nearly 8 million people are internally displaced in the two countries. \n\nIt also estimated that 98 to 122 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents were emitted from US military operations between 2003 and 2021 in the war zone.\u00a0 \n\nTo put that into perspective, Belgium, a country of 11.5 million people, produced roughly around the same carbon emissions in 2021.\u00a0 \n\nThe US and its allies, including the UK, Australia and Poland, invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003, under the pretext of\u00a0destroying Iraq's nuclear arsenal and ending the oppressive rule of Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 \n\nNo weapons were ever found.\u00a0 \n\nThe US returned to significant military operations in Iraq and Syria in late 2014, as the Islamic State terror group swept across the two countries. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The devastating impact of war in Iraq and Syria has been revealed in a new report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//CostsOfWar?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\%22>Cost of War Project<\/strong><\/a>, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced and trillions of dollars have been spent, following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////watson.brown.edu//costsofwar//files//cow//imce//papers//2023//Costs of 20 Years of Iraq War Crawford 15 March 2023.pdf/">study -- published on Wednesday -- comes ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the start of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', commonly known as the Iraq war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It found that more than half a million human lives have been lost in Iraq and Syria as a direct result of the violence, while \"several times\" that number may have died due to knock-on effects, such as preventable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Many civilians were killed by aerial bombing, fires, shelling, gunshots, and suicide attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Others died as systems providing food, health care and clean drinking water were destroyed, fuelling illness, infectious diseases and malnutrition that could have been avoided or treated.<\/p>\n<p>The report also highlighted the bruising impact of the war on US coffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1636040289562562561\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It is estimated to have already hit American taxpayers with a $1.79 trillion (\u20ac1.68 trillion) bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the costs of medical and disability care for veterans, this figure is expected to soar to $2.89 trillion (\u20ac2.71 trillion) by 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 32,000 personnel within the US army were wounded in action in Iraq, according to the US Department of Defence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ten times that number were found to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//article//us-iraq-usa-health-idUSN1728241320080417/">suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and depression<\/strong><\/a> in a 2008 study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cost of War study -- titled \"blood and treasure\" -- found that more than 7 million people from Iraq and Syria are currently refugees, while nearly 8 million people are internally displaced in the two countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6946774\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//08//17//why-the-sale-of-guns-on-facebook-in-iraq-is-so-rife/">Why the sale of guns on Facebook in Iraq is so 'rife'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It also estimated that 98 to 122 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents were emitted from US military operations between 2003 and 2021 in the war zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To put that into perspective, Belgium, a country of 11.5 million people, produced roughly around the same carbon emissions in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies, including the UK, Australia and Poland, invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003, under the pretext of\u00a0destroying Iraq's nuclear arsenal and ending the oppressive rule of Saddam Hussein.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No weapons were ever found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US returned to significant military operations in Iraq and Syria in late 2014, as the Islamic State terror group swept across the two countries.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1678977353,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1678984948,"firstPublishedAt":1678984951,"lastPublishedAt":1678984951,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/93\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9af7b954-3868-5730-a680-0ad5f7a82932-7469388.jpg","altText":"A woman passes by graves in Iraq.","caption":"A woman passes by graves in Iraq.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"SHWAN MOHAMMED\/AFP or licensors","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":682}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2442,"urlSafeValue":"askew","title":"Joshua 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capital where he vowed to continue the fight against the Islamic State group until its extremists are defeated. \n\nAustin was greeted on touchdown in Baghdad by Major General Matthew McFarlane, the US commander in Iraq, which is home to hundreds of American troops helping in the fight against the militant Islamic State group. \n\nThe Pentagon chief also said that American forces are ready to remain in Iraq at the invitation of its government, adding that these forces are operating in a non-combat and advisory role in support of the \u201cIraqi-led fight against terrorism.\u201d \n\n\u201cThis is a critical mission and we\u2019re proud to support our Iraqi partners,\u201d said Austin, one of the most senior Biden administration officials to visit Iraq in recent years. \n\n\"Our defence cooperation against Daesh [the\u00a0Arabic acronym for the Islamic State] is a key pillar of our bilateral relationship. And the United States remains committed to this fight in support of Iraq's security and the security of the entire region.\" \n\nSince the US-led invasion in 2003 that removed longtime dictator Saddam\u00a0Hussein from power, Iraq has been a point of friction between the United States and Iran. Tehran has widely expanded its influence in Iraq over the past 20 years. \n\nDespite their defeat in Iraq in 2017, IS militants and their sleeper cells are still launching attacks in the country, as well as in neighboring Syria. IS has killed and wounded dozens of Iraqi troops over the few past months. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit Tuesday to the Iraqi capital where he vowed to continue the fight against the Islamic State group until its extremists are defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Austin was greeted on touchdown in Baghdad by Major General Matthew McFarlane, the US commander in Iraq, which is home to hundreds of American troops helping in the fight against the militant Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon chief also said that American forces are ready to remain in Iraq at the invitation of its government, adding that these forces are operating in a non-combat and advisory role in support of the \u201cIraqi-led fight against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"5187266\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2020//12//08//joe-biden-picks-ex-army-general-lloyd-austin-as-defence-secretary-sources-say/">Joe Biden picks ex-army general Lloyd Austin as defence secretary, sources say<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a critical mission and we\u2019re proud to support our Iraqi partners,\u201d said Austin, one of the most senior Biden administration officials to visit Iraq in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our defence cooperation against Daesh [the\u00a0Arabic acronym for the Islamic State] is a key pillar of our bilateral relationship. And the United States remains committed to this fight in support of Iraq's security and the security of the entire region.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1633003718416429057\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since the US-led invasion in 2003 that removed longtime dictator Saddam\u00a0Hussein from power, Iraq has been a point of friction between the United States and Iran. Tehran has widely expanded its influence in Iraq over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their defeat in Iraq in 2017, IS militants and their sleeper cells are still launching attacks in the country, as well as in neighboring Syria. 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No Iraqi woman had taken up such a profession before.\u00a0At the start, relatives criticised me.\u00a0They used to tell me 'you won\u2019t succeed because you\u2019re a woman and it's a men's trade\u2019, but I have proved the opposite.\"\u00a0said the 29-year-old carpenter and furniture maker. \n\n\"They would say: 'But you're a woman... You're an amateur... It's a men's trade'.\" \n\nCovered in velvet or imitation leather, the sofas and armchairs that she designs, makes and mends in her south Baghdad workshop go from rustic style to Louis XV. \n\nHer order book is full, with new lounges starting at a cool 700,000 dinars (around \u20ac480). \n\nJanabi has been making furniture for several years, and launched her business, Nour Carpentry, a few months ago. She recently moved operations from her home to a house turned workshop, where she has four employees -- one of them her retired husband. \n\n\"But it's not right to say it like that,\" she said with an embarrassed smile, her hijab covering her hair. \n\nIn oil-rich Iraq, women make up just 13.3 percent of the labour force, according to the World Bank, while the World Economic Forum ranked the country 154 out of 156 in its latest Global Gender Gap Report. \n\nA study published last year by two UN agencies noted that while most Iraqis consider tertiary education equally important for men and women, \"attitudes toward equal rights in employment are discriminatory against women\". \n\nYou make Iraq proud \n\nJanabi attributes her success largely to do-it-yourself tutorials that she first posted on Facebook to share her passion for carpentry and furniture-making. \n\nShe uploads videos -- about everything from how to re-stuff an old sofa to using a sander -- to TikTok and Instagram too, where she has more than 94,000 followers. \n\n\"I am the first Iraqi woman to do this trade and break the barrier in this field,\" she claimed, in a country still largely dominated by conservative attitudes about women's role in society, and where those perceived as too independent are sometimes even considered immoral. \n\nShe said she receives comments from women and men telling her: \"You make Iraq proud and you have accomplished something.\u00a0The social media content I create is among a few in Iraq on which I hadn\u2019t received negative feedback linked to my work. Most comments from men and women alike say: \u2018You are a hero and a courageous woman. You make Iraq proud and you have accomplished something\u2019.\" \n\nWoman general in Iraqi Army \n\nMost working women in Iraq are teachers or nurses, though a small number have entered the police or armed forces.\u00a0One of them is Angham al-Tamimi, who this year became the first woman army general.\u00a0In a video broadcast by the military's press service, she said she had \"faced the non-acceptance of women in the military\".\u00a0But she said she had succeeded thanks to her \"persistence\" and \"passion\". \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Breaking all the rules in a conservative region, against all the odds, in a male-dominated business and you are a young woman with 4 kids.<\/p>\n<p>With hammer and saw, Nour al-Janabi is building her latest creation, a candy-pink sofa, in the carpentry workshop she runs in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am the first Iraqi woman to do this trade and break the barrier in this field. No Iraqi woman had taken up such a profession before.\u00a0At the start, relatives criticised me.\u00a0They used to tell me 'you won\u2019t succeed because you\u2019re a woman and it's a men's trade\u2019, but I have proved the opposite.\"\u00a0said the 29-year-old carpenter and furniture maker.<\/p>\n<p>\"They would say: 'But you're a woman... You're an amateur... It's a men's trade'.\"<\/p>\n<p>Covered in velvet or imitation leather, the sofas and armchairs that she designs, makes and mends in her south Baghdad workshop go from rustic style to Louis XV.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//21//15//74//808x454_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg/" alt=\"AFP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/384x216_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/640x360_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/750x422_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/828x466_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1080x608_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1200x675_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1920x1080_cmsv2_10023127-b529-5127-a138-41638cf352fb-7211574.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Nour al-Janabi is doing everything by herself in her carpentry and furniture workshop.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AFP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Her order book is full, with new lounges starting at a cool 700,000 dinars (around \u20ac480).<\/p>\n<p>Janabi has been making furniture for several years, and launched her business, Nour Carpentry, a few months ago. She recently moved operations from her home to a house turned workshop, where she has four employees -- one of them her retired husband.<\/p>\n<p>\"But it's not right to say it like that,\" she said with an embarrassed smile, her hijab covering her hair.<\/p>\n<p>In oil-rich Iraq, women make up just 13.3 percent of the labour force, according to the World Bank, while the World Economic Forum ranked the country 154 out of 156 in its latest Global Gender Gap Report.<\/p>\n<p>A study published last year by two UN agencies noted that while most Iraqis consider tertiary education equally important for men and women, \"attitudes toward equal rights in employment are discriminatory against women\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//21//15//74//808x454_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg/" alt=\"AFP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/384x216_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/640x360_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/750x422_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/828x466_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1080x608_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1200x675_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/21\/15\/74\/1920x1080_cmsv2_c4e2073b-eced-5e69-afdb-763f2b8c1e3e-7211574.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Nour al-Janabi is choosing the proper fabric for her furnitures.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AFP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>You make Iraq proud<\/h2><p>Janabi attributes her success largely to do-it-yourself tutorials that she first posted on Facebook to share her passion for carpentry and furniture-making.<\/p>\n<p>She uploads videos -- about everything from how to re-stuff an old sofa to using a sander -- to TikTok and Instagram too, where she has more than 94,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am the first Iraqi woman to do this trade and break the barrier in this field,\" she claimed, in a country still largely dominated by conservative attitudes about women's role in society, and where those perceived as too independent are sometimes even considered immoral.<\/p>\n<p>She said she receives comments from women and men telling her: \"You make Iraq proud and you have accomplished something.\u00a0The social media content I create is among a few in Iraq on which I hadn\u2019t received negative feedback linked to my work. Most comments from men and women alike say: \u2018You are a hero and a courageous woman. 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