By Carles Grau Sivera Baghdad, Mar 21 (EFE).- After United States-led forces captured Baghdad in April 2003, many artifacts dating back to ancient Mesopotamia were looted from the Iraqi National Museum and authorities in the country are now working to retrieve the relics. More than 13,000 pieces were plundered in just six days by criminal …
By Carles Grau Sivera Baghdad, Mar 20 (EFE).- Hafsa, a 45-year-old Iraqi woman, breaks into tears when she recalls the American invasion of her country 20 years ago. “We hope the invasion would bring change, that we would go from bad to good,” Hafsa, who preferred not to give her full name, tells Efe. “But …
By Carles Grau Sivera Baghdad, Mar 19 (EFE).- After the United States-led invasion of Iraq overthrew dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, tensions between the country’s two main religious factions rapidly escalated and plunged Iraq into a brutal civil war that the country is still trying to recover from. During Hussein’s rule, “there was no freedom,” …
By Carles Grau Sivera Baghdad, Mar 17 (EFE).- Built on an idyllic artificial lake by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, Baghdad’s Al Faw Palace complex has since served as one of the main US military bases during the invasion and then a jail for the dictator before his execution. Now, perhaps ironically, it hosts the …
By Carles Grau Sivera Baghdad, Mar 16 (EFE).- When Abu Hasan Ali saw American troops enter Baghdad in April 2003, he thought Saddam Hussein’s tyranny would be over within 24 hours and Iraq would be free. But the bombing of the Iraqi capital by the United States military pulverized his left arm and his hopes …