http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/struggle_for_iraq/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa The latest stories from the Struggle for Iraq section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:12:45 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/struggle_for_iraq/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa 120 60 15 It's 10 years since the war in Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, and since Marwa Shimari lost her leg at the age of 12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21703819#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21703819 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:18:25 GMT A militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind the wave of bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday which killed some 50 people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21857424#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21857424 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:33:19 GMT Ten people are killed as a car bomb explodes at a bus station near Basra in southern Iraq, days before the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21821159#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21821159 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:57:38 GMT More than 20 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks on government buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police and medics say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21783804#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21783804 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:16:19 GMT The US rebuilding effort in Iraq achieved little despite $60bn (£40bn) spent since the 2003 invasion and at least $8bn wasted, a US auditor says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21692031#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21692031 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:17:45 GMT Allegations of abuse, torture and unlawful killing by British soldiers of detainees in Iraq in 2004 are outlined at the Al-Sweady Inquiry in London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21742677#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21742677 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:25:53 GMT A militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind the killing of 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards in Iraq last week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21738613#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21738613 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:45:50 GMT Key moments since 2003 - in pictures and video http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16183966#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16183966 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:31:55 GMT How has life changed since 2003? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21752819#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21752819 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:59:01 GMT Tensions threaten power-sharing government http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16275674#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16275674 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:14:16 GMT Key figures from the invasion to 2010-11 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11107739#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11107739 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:36:57 GMT A multitude of parties and factions have been trying to form a coalition government following inconclusive elections. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11730332#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11730332 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:26:14 GMT Everything you need to know about the Iraqi elections http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8547906.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8547906.stm Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:17:28 GMT A chronology of key events http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/737483.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/737483.stm Sat, 21 May 2011 12:10:12 GMT As US forces withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities, key facts and figures give background information on the state of the economy and people's lifestyle. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11095920#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11095920 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:34:51 GMT Ben Brown visits the National Museum of Iraq which suffered pillaging, theft and damage in 2003. A decade years later work is still underway to recover lost cultural treasures. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21861614#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21861614 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:09:46 GMT Iraq has one of the highest economic growth rates in the world fuelled by the oil industry yet paradoxically it also has a rocketing unemployment rate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21855392#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21855392 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:24:38 GMT Ten years on from the US-led invasion of Iraq, 60 people have been killed in a series of car and suicide bombings in and around Baghdad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21851330#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21851330 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:50:52 GMT The shifting nature of combat in Iraq forced the US military to upgrade its equipment, as it sought to minimise casualties. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21849494#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21849494 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:48:14 GMT Former UK PM Tony Blair tells the BBC he has no regrets over Iraq on the 10th anniversary of the country's invasion - and says the situation otherwise would have been "a lot worse than Syria". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21841673#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21841673 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:38:39 GMT This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. It is thought that at least 116,000 civilians lost their lives in the years following the invasion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21826764#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21826764 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:34:05 GMT As this week marks 10 years since the invasion of Iraq, the foreign minister reveals how the transformation from dictatorship to democracy has been "torturous". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21840914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21840914 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:03:56 GMT It has been 10 years since the start of the Iraq war and on this anniversary the BBC has learned that two key pieces of intelligence, which could have prevented the conflict, were either dismissed or used selectively. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21834937#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21834937 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:37:46 GMT As the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war approaches Ben Brown went back to ask if the violence, lasting almost nine years has been worth it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21827159#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21827159 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:09:03 GMT Former soldier Jon le Galloudec was shot in the back and paralysed in an ambush by insurgents in Basra in 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21827633#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21827633 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:11:37 GMT John Simpson remembers the aftermath of a bombing he was caught up in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21829269#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21829269 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:02:37 GMT The spies who misled the world over Iraq's weapons http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21786506#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21786506 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:43:33 GMT Impact on those who fought or lost loved ones in the war http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21823016#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21823016 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:26:10 GMT Images by award-winning photographer Sean Smith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21683264#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21683264 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:22:49 GMT The difficulties of capturing war for the cinema http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21723313#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21723313 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:13:49 GMT Attacks are aimed at exacerbating sectarian tensions http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18951290#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18951290 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:11:49 GMT Are Babylonian ruins worth more than oil profits? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17702153#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17702153 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:31:06 GMT Obama declares success in a war he opposed http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16190655#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16190655 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:22:17 GMT Iraqi women 'afraid for their country' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15743078#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15743078 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:19:56 GMT