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Live chat replay. The story of the Iraq war and the chaos that followed, told by Iraqis who lived through it. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you.
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- FRONTLINE PBS | Official
Insurgency — Series 1. 2 / 5 Lt Colonel Nate Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel reflect on the Iraqi insurgency.
Series 1: 1. War. Iraq civilians recall their initial hopes before the realities of war become clear. 60 mins. Series 1: 2. Insurgency. Lt Colonel Nate Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel...
Jul 13, 2020 · Waleed Nesyif was 18 when George Bush gave Saddam Hussein just 48 hours to leave Iraq. He was, like many Iraqi teenagers at that time, infatuated by the West.
- Simon Russell
- November 24, 2026
- James Bluemel
- November 24, 2021
The series chronologically covers the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein, and its subsequent occupation of Iraq (2003–2011); the first phase of the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006); the Iraqi Civil War (2006–2008); the post-US withdrawal insurgency (2011–2013); and the War ...
For the people of Iraq, the fallout from the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 continues to this day, sometimes in unexpected — and violent — ways. Four Iraqis share what has happened in their lives ...
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Sadly, almost two decades of civil war and unrest, American meddling and manipulation, widespread corruption and political turmoil, sectarian/religious tensions, and an extremist insurgency (ISIS) further imprisoned Iraq's citizens and suffering followed. Saddam's regime was extremely oppressive.
