06/07/2016 Newsround

I'm Ayshah with the top stories around this Wednesday.

Wales are preparing for the biggest football match of their lives.

And Andy Murray hopes to serve up a quarterfinal win at Wimbledon.

I'm Ayshah with Wednesday's Newsround.

The Iraq War lasted for eight years and began after the US and UK

Thousands of soldiers and Iraqi people lost their lives,

and many people questioned why Britain and America got involved.

Today the results of a special investigation into what happened

In 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq in the Middle East,

They targeted the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The American and British leaders at the time said he was dangerous

They also said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that

Saddam Hussein said he didn't have any such weapons.

But the American and UK leaders didn't believe him.

The decision to go to war was completely controversial and not

everyone agreed. Millions of people protested all over the UK.

But the British Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair,

Iraq's army was defeated and Saddam Hussein was

But no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

The mission turned into a long war lasting eight years.

4,500 American troops died and the UK lost 179

No-one knows for sure how many Iraqis died,

It also left different groups in Iraq fighting

Many people questioned why the UK and US got

In 2009, the then British Prime Minster, Gordon Brown,

set up a special investigation called the Chilcot Inquiry -

Sir John Chilcot was asked to find out what happened in the run-up

to the invasion and whether the right decisions were made.

After nearly seven years, the results are finally being published.

To the Euros in France, where tonight Wales will play

They take on Portugal for a place in the finals.

So far in their Euros journey they've played 450 minutes

of football, won four out of five matches and scored ten goals

It's been a truly incredible story of a small country who've taken one

of the world's biggest football tournaments by storm.

And fans have been in touch with their good luck

Now, a lot of the talk in the build-up to this game has

been on the head-to-head between two giant players,

Real Madrid team mates Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.

And if you want to know more about that clash,

That's also where you can follow the latest in Lyon

in France with Jenny, who's there for us.

There's action in the tennis at Wimbledon today.

Britain's number one Andy Murray will take on France's

This is Murray's ninth Wimbledon quarter-final in a row,

and he has beaten Tsonga in 12 of their 14 matches.

Murray is the second match on Centre Court

and is expected to play at around 4pm this afternoon.

In the women's draw, a final between a big sister

and a little sister is looking more likely, as both Serena

and Venus Williams are through to the semi-finals.

It's been seven years since Venus last reached

She'll play Angelique Kerber next and Serena will play Elena Vesnina.

At 36, Venus Williams is the oldest Grand Slam semi-finalist

Millions of Muslims all around the world will be celebrating

the Muslim festival Eid al-Fitr this week.

It marks the end of Ramadan, during which people avoid eating

from dawn until sunset for about a month.

Eid al-Fitr means "festival of the breaking of the fast"

and it is one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic year.

Here's what some of you guys are looking forward to.

We celebrate by meeting with friends and relatives. The community goes to

the mosque for a special Eid. Prayer. Nicer foods and sweets. When

people are fasting, they can eat, have a happy day, give presence. We

celebrate Eid. By saying happy Eid.. That's all from me this morning,

Leah's here at 4:20pm this afternoon