BAGHDAD: Iraq on Monday marked 20 years since the start of the United States-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, but no official celebrations were planned.

The oil-rich country remains traumatized by the years of war, occupation and bloody sectarian turmoil that followed the operation launched on March 20, 2003.

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