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

https://mins.news/en/video/84690

- DW News, 2026-10-03 14:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu9VYSCbmiw

> 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.

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