WorldWhy Iraq can't escape the US and Iran | Mapped Out

Foreign powers have interfered in Iraq for more than a century, including Britain’s installation of a king who had never been to the country. The US invasion in 2003 toppled Saddam Hussein, and the last US troops only recently left. Iranian-backed militias are now undermining the Iraqi state, while the country has again become a battleground in the current US-Israeli war with Iran.