Iraq

Colin Powell predicted that his 2003 United Nations speech making the case for war with Iraq would dominate his obituaries. And so it should.

Cici Washburn reports from Saturday's rally commemorating 20 years of the Stop the War Coalition

Lindsey German on anti-imperialism and the War on Terror

John Clarke analyses US imperialism in the twenty years since the September 11th terrorist attacks

Lindsey German speaks to Double Down News about the legacy of 20 years of war and terror on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks

The former US Defense Secretary should be remembered for his connivance in horrific wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, writes Sean Ledwith

Despite thousands of allegations of crimes committed by the British army in Iraq, not one case has been prosecuted in a court - how can the ICC say there isn't a cover-up?

'Wars are welcome, refugees not' seems to be the only mantra the media and politicians want to repeat, says Lindsey German

Terina Hine reviews the fascinating five-part TV documentary Once Upon a Time in Iraq available on BBC iPlayer

In this critical hour, all sanctions and hostilities must cease argues Chris Nineham

Andrew Murray shows that Corbynism’s roots in social movements and rebellion against neoliberalism will mean its enduring significance, argues Chris Bambery

The threat of war with Iran isn't over and the anti-war movement must continue to organise against it, writes Shabbir Lakha

Protesters took the streets to say no to Trump's drive to war with Iran, reports Shabbir Lakha

We’re living in an unprecedented moment - the fortunes of popular protest will depend on the collective leadership of the movements, writes Feyzi Ismail

Ahead of the Nato Summit in London on 3 December, Sweta Choudhury busts the myths that portray Nato as a force for peace

Across North Africa and the Middle East, protesters in their millions are taking to the streets to fight dictatorship, repression, corruption and imperialist-endorsed austerity

Corbyn's position on Britain's military adventures has been right on every occasion, argues Chris Nineham

Insurgent protest is spreading across the globe like wildfire as people take to the streets demanding fundamental change, writes Chris Nineham

Official Secrets shows the extent of the lies in the drive to war with Iraq and leaves the viewer asking how on earth Blair got away with it, writes Shabbir Lakha

We shouldn't be fooled, the British state has been deliberately ramping up military aggression with Iran, argues Alistair Cartwright

Alastair Campbell is trying to destroy Corbyn's leadership. The left cannot win by capitulating to him, argues Katherine Connelly

David Bush looks at what a slogan developed during World War 2 and crystallized as a position during the Cold War means for socialists in the 21st century

If anyone had doubts about the direction of Trump’s Middle East policy, the last few days should have cleared them up

Calls for further intervention show that the lessons of Libya and Iraq have not been learnt, writes Lindsey German

A disastrous summer for the foreign policy establishment should be a golden opportunity for Labour, argues John Rees

Lindsey German makes the connections between recent war remembrance and today’s Chilcot report

Repeated, arrogant western interventions from 2003 to today lie behind the rise of IS, as two recent books agree, argues Sean Ledwith

David Kilcullen’s insider account of the war on terror should be a warning to us all, writes Chris Nineham

Here are the Stop the War Coalition's views on some issues that are routinely misrepresented

Advocates for the bombing of Syria led us into disaster in Iraq and Libya. Their judgement should not be trusted, argues Chris Nineham

Behind Cameron’s new push for war, lies a total failure to recognise the reasons for the growth of Isis, writes Lindsey German

What should the West do? Cease all intervention in the Middle East, accept refugees fleeing from war and promote reparations, argues Brian Heron

The Tories need Labour's war faction to deliver a serious looking majority on bombing Syria writes Brian Heron

John Rees: UK bombing will increase the civilian death toll and the number of refugees, recruit to IS and strengthen Assad, and fuel the major powers’ arms race in the region. It is the very definition of a foreign policy disaster waiting to happen

Peter Stauber reviews Syria Burning byCharles Glass

Labour leadership frontrunner Corbyn has the advantage over many of his detractors in that he always opposed the Iraq war, and the War on Terror

The possibility of Jeremy Corbyn winning the Labour leadership terrifies the political establishment, partly because of his consistent anti-war record

New research reveals the scale of civilian casualties due to US-led air strikes on Iraq and Syria

Cameron plans to extend UK involvement in the wars raging in Iraq and Syria, while mounting an hysterical attack on British Muslims

Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State shows how and why the West bears responsibility for the crisis, argues Sean Ledwith

A decade of invasion, occupation and bombing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere has been the seed bed of Isis and other terrorist groups

Western governments try to justify their failure to secure the Middle East militarily by blaming the Muslim community as a whole

A great virtue of the film is how it shows the impact 15 February 2003 had on movements that followed and even now is shaping politics

John Rees reflects on the 'Jihadi John' story and the role of the secret services in the fight against terrorism

The convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, Lindsey German on what she would do if she was Prime Minister

The farce continues, as yet another delay means we still don't know if war criminals like Tony Blair will be incriminated by the Iraq war inquiry

If you read the western media reporting on the Paris attack, says Lindsey German, it is as if the wars waged by the western powers in Muslim countries aren't happening

Lindsey German looks at twelve features of last year that will shape politics in the year ahead

Captain Ska couldn't wait any longer for the Chilcot enquiry to be released, so he's published his own verdict

The US has failed in Afghanistan. The next phase will be trying to keep their bases in perpetuity as they leave, so they can return again as in Iraq

The parallels between the politics of the invasion of Iraq and the dismantling of the NHS could not be more blatant writes Iain Wilson

Far from weakening the Islamic State there is evidence that US led airstrikes are actually having the reverse effect argues Elliot Murphy

Should Save the Children charity have given Tony Blair its Global Legacy Award? Chris Nineham debates with Matthew Doyle - a former advisor to Tony Blair - on Five Live

Lindsey German: Muslims in Britain could be forgiven for thinking that even when they do the right thing, it’s wrong

A Kurdish state would raise the hopes of millions of Kurds, change the geopolitics of the region and challenge the integrity of the existing states writes Alastair Stephens

Since Wednesday’s shooting, the notion that 'Canada will never be the same again' has picked up steam. This cliche carries with it potentially dangerous implications argues Derrick O'Keefe

Sean Ledwith investigates the history of Western involvement in Iraq that has led the US into a third war in the country

The sectarian legacy of the US occupation means Obama's strategy of air strikes in support of the Iraqi military cannot defeat the Islamic State argues Ady Cousins

This latest phase of terrorism is a product of the west's disastrous foreign policies, endless wars and backing of barbaric regimes in the Middle East

John Rees of Stop the War Coalition says the Kurds could defeat IS if Turkey allowed the PKK fighters to cross the border with Syria and join the defence of Kobane

Nato member Turkey is effectively allowing Isis to destroy the Kurdish city of Kobane. This press release by Turkish Kurdish organisation Day-Mer, calls for international solidarity and for Turkey to allow Kurdish heavy weapons through to defend the city

As the Canadian Parliament votes to join the US-led war in Iraq and Syria, this editorial from the new left-wing website 'Ricochet' argues that big questions remain unexamined

The governments of the US, Turkey, Britain, Israel and the rest of the alliance for Iraq War III are no real defenders of Kurdish rights

Turkish and Kurdish organisation Day-Mer have released the following statement condemning imperialist military intervention and calling for solidarity with the Kurdish people

Kit Klarenberg looks at how the Thatcher government secretly armed both sides in the war between Iran and Iraq

Chris Nineham outlines why Parliament should reject Cameron's call for a third Iraq war

Letter to The Guardian from John McDonnell MP, Tariq Ali, Len McCluskey, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Diane Abbott MP, Michael Rosen, Mohammed Kozbar, Kate Hudson, Caryl Churchill, George Galloway MP, Lindsey German, many more

Images, videos and tweets from the mobilisation against Nato's war summit in Newport, Wales

Video from a Stop the War Coalition rally on the eve of protests in Newport against the Nato summit, with Boris Kagarlitsky, Sami Ramadani and Lindsey German

The US is now bombing Isis, an organization that it once helped to fight Assad, in a new war that may well require Assad’s assistance

Lindsey German: Muslims have been subjected to racist accusations and demands that they desist from extremism - but most Muslims in this country do not support Isis or anything like it

Isis is simply the latest in a series of fanatical, violent movements born out of the disastrous consequences of US military intervention argues Alastair Stephens

The deranged expansionist policies of Nato are implicated in the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Iraq argues Chris Nineham

Lindsey German on a BBC TV panel show making the case against intervention in Iraq by the United States and Britain

Lindsey German: What we are seeing in Iraq now is blowback on a major scale, yet many of those responsible are now saying more military intervention will work

In this interview, Tariq Ali discusses the recent Israel, Palestine, the BDS movment, the rise of ISIS, and Obama’s commitment to long-term US involvement in Iraq.

Western calls to arm the Kurds and bomb Iraq are both hypocritical and dangerous, argues John Rees

In 2011 Barack Obama said the war with Iraq was over. So what's he doing back there bombing again in 2014? Larry the Llama explains

Farsi translation of 'The rise and rise of the Islamic State' by Sami Ramadani

The rapid advance across Iraq by militant fighters from the Islamic State, widely known as Isis, has thrown the country into chaos

Marienna Pope-Weidemann reviews Amir Amirani’s ‘We are many’, a documentary about the biggest anti-war demonstration in history

Farsi translation of 'Iraq: three kinds of blowback and the threat of war stoked by western meddling' by John Rees

Western intervention has been the curse of the Middle East for over 100 years. The cure for the crisis in Iraq is not more intervention, says John Rees, but ending this disastrous history of meddling

The development of a conflict which already involves Iran and Saudi Arabia, could foreshadow a full scale middle eastern war, with incalculable consequences for Israel and the Palestinians

A serious examination of the use of torture in Iraq and Afghanistan, Phillips brings home the full horror of the war crimes inflicted upon the occupied populations.