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Mar 20, 2023 · 20 Mar 2023. Twenty years ago on this day, a US-led ground invasion of Iraq began. Death and destruction quickly became a common sight in the country. The war caused the deaths of more than ...
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Mar 19, 2023 · Ordinary people in Iraq were given disposable cameras. The scenes they captured paint a picture of how life has changed in the 20 years since the US invaded the country in 2003.
Mar 20, 2023 · The start of the Iraq War 20 years later in photos. March 20, 2003: U.S. Marines prepare themselves after receiving orders to cross the Iraqi border at Camp Shoup, in northern Kuwait. On March 20 ...
Dec 11, 2023 · In Pictures. Gallery|Climate Crisis. Iraq’s marshes are dying, and so is a civilization ... In the 1990s, Iraq’s former strongman President Saddam Hussein drained the marshes – which were 20 ...
- Million Internally Displaced
- Million Refugees
- Widespread Violence
- Economic Instability
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq lasted until 2011 and led to multiple waves of large-scale displacement. The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) rose from zero registered in 2003 to 2.6 million in 2007. By the time the US announced an end to its combat operations in December 2011, the number of Iraqi IDPs stood at 1.3 million. H...
In addition to those internally displaced, millions more Iraqis became refugees. At their peak in 2007, more than 2.3 million Iraqis had fled the country, and 80 percent had ended up in neighbouring Syria and Jordan. Among those who fled in the years following the invasion were half of Iraq’s registered doctors, according to the Iraqi Medical Assoc...
The removal of Saddam Hussein created a power vacuum that escalated sectarian tensions and resulted in a civil war. “There’s so many different actors with guns and power and authority over us,” al-Khatib says. “So instead of one dictator before, we have hundreds now.” “I think it changed, everything changed," he says. "I just don't like the options...
Since the invasion of Iraq, the country has suffered from an extended period of high inflation. At its height in 2006, the consumer inflation rate hit 53 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Despite US objectives to maintain economic stability and rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure after the 2003 invasion, entrenched violence, comm...
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