How Iraq's War Shaped our World

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From the BBC, an in-depth look at how the war has changed Iraq five years after the US-led invasion.

In this documentary series, four leading voices of the BBC's coverage in the last five years (Jim Muir, Magdi Abdelhadi, Lyse Doucet and John Simpson) give their varying assessments of how the Iraq invasion and subsequent insurgency developed, charting the missed opportunities and faulty assessments by the Coalition, and the murderous exploitation of Iraq's post-war frailty by Saddam loyalists and foreign Islamists.

The series also looks at how the ripples begun in the Sunni triangle have since spread globally, affecting the political and diplomatic balance worldwide.

In this first part of the series, BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power.

He looks at political developments - the split between Shia and Sunni Muslims - and conflict with the Kurds and gives his predictions for the future.

Produced by the world's most respected news source, the BBC World Service is a 24-hour news service that gives listeners access to the latest world news, expert analysis, commentary, features, and interviews on issues of the day. Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by PRI.

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