Having handed Iraq to Iran, the US faces a strategic dilemma of enormous proportions, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

Scores of political groups have sprung up since the US invasion of Iraq, but the silent majority still lack democratic representation, writes Salah Hemeid

Five years on, Iraqis who went along with the US-led war now look back in anger as their nation is sucked into a quagmire, writes Saif Nasrawi

Osama, Obama: what's in a name? On Iraq, Clinton has more in common with McCain, writes Gamal Nkrumah

In all the analysis accorded to the sad anniversary of the US invasion and destruction of Iraq, few words have focussed on the human toll for Iraqis, writes Ramzy Baroud