📹Оn March 20, 2003, the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its allies began. The official goals were to overthrow President Saddam Hussein and to fight international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Chaos came to the Middle East. The war resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, the exacerbation of the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, and the emergence of ISIS*.

Iraq has not still recovered from the tragic consequences. Medicine, education, and industry are in decline, and only oil production is prospering, but these natural resources alone are not enough to fill the budget and solve the myriad problems facing the nation. ‘We still see no stability in the state. A growing number of people live below the poverty line,’ says former refugee Mukhalled Hazem.

Discover more in our film, US Invaders: Iraq 20 years on (2023).

*counted an extremist organisation and banned in Russia

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