by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 8, 2016 | Opinion
One can pick out what one wants to from the Chilcot report that took nearly seven years to complete and comprises of more than one a half million words. However, the huge report does not contain a single accusation of criminality against the then British Prime...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 8, 2016 | Saudi Arabia
London – A report by a British committee on the Iraq War said that Saudi Arabia had warned at early stages from launching a military invasion of the Arab Gulf country. The report issued earlier this week was the result of a seven-year inquiry, led by retired civil...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 19, 2013 | Opinion
In 2003 when the drums of the Iraq War were beating, I remember well how the term Qawmajiyya, alluding to ultra-nationalism, spread like wildfire. The word–in a derisive context–and its derivatives were reiterated by many among the supporters of the invasion of Iraq...
by Diana Moukalled | Sep 4, 2013 | Opinion
The consequences of the Iraqi experience are what they are. Since day one of the Syrian revolution, images of Syrians defacing statues of Hafez and Bashar Al-Assad immediately brought to mind the toppling of Saddam Hussein and scenes of Iraqis pulling down statues of...
by Kanan Makiya | Apr 15, 2013 | Opinion
If the 1991 war was about a restoration of the Arab state system, the 2003 war, coming in the wake of the shock of 9/11, called its very legitimacy into question. However much it bungled the first year of the American occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration by its...
