Twenty years ago, the United States, with support from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, launched an invasion of Iraq with the goal of preventing Saddam Hussein’s regime from developing or using weapons of mass destruction.

Within weeks, coalition forces took control of Baghdad and toppled the Iraqi government.

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However, despite repeated claims from the US and its allies before the invasion, no evidence of WMDs or programs to develop them was found in Iraq.

About 5000 coalition soldiers died in the war, with estimates of Iraqi casualties ranging from 180,000 to more than 1 million. Millions of Iraqis were also forced to flee their homes, and the consequences of the conflict continue to affect the country’s people two decades on.