It will be twenty years tomorrow: on April 9, 2003, the imposing statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad was pulled down, a symbol of the fall of a dictatorial regime in power for 24 years.
After several days of bombardment by coalition troops led by the United States, Baghdad fell. For the United States, Iraq was liberated. But this intervention plunged the country into two decades of violence and a difficult process of reconstruction. In twenty years, Iraq has changed profoundly.
To discuss these developments, Guilhem Delteil receives Myriam Benraad, professor of international relations at the Schiller International University in Paris. She is the author of a book titled Iraq Beyond All Wars.