“Tony Blair has given a qualified apology for his role in the 2003 Iraq war, admitting he had not properly understood the chaos that would follow the removal of Saddam Hussein, its leader, conceding it had contributed to the rise of Islamist group ISIS,” the Financial Times reports.
“The former Labour prime minister also conceded the war was based on faulty intelligence, in what was seen as his most comprehensive mea culpa since the conflict.”