The United States invaded Iraq 20 years ago in March 2003, claiming it had to disarm the Iraqi government of weapons of mass destruction and end the dictatorial rule of President Saddam Hussein. U.S.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - A retired general and former war correspondent will reunite Thursday evening on the stage of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Bennett Auditorium to share ...

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Soon after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, two major U.S. news organizations characterized the event in contrasting ways. "U.S. warplanes strike nuclear ...

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent ...

Twenty years ago, on May 12, 2003, I crossed a US Navy-built bridge into southern Baghdad and a world most people knew only from TV coverage. The capital city had fallen about a month earlier to US ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

Three days before the 2003 ceremony, the United States invaded Iraq. Despite pleas to delay the awards, the academy went ahead with what became a politics-suffused evening. By Sarah Bahr Follow our ...

“Our mission is clear,” declared president George W. Bush following the ground invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein’s support ...

Regime change à la Iraq. Saddam Hussein captured in Tikrit in December, 2003. Wikicommons/ US army photo. Some rights reserved.An Arab leader defies the west and a ...