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Date: 20 March 2003 – 1 May 2003 (1 month, 1 week and 4 days) Location: Iraq and Kuwait [a] ... 19 March 2003, to announce the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
June 28: At 10:26 am, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority formally transferred sovereignty of Iraqi territory to the Iraqi interim government, two days ahead of schedule. L. Paul Bremer departed the country two hours later. June 30: Saddam Hussein and eleven high ex-governmental figures are put under the Iraqi Interim Government's authority.
U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams pose for a photo under the Victory Arch at Baghdad's Ceremony Square in 2003. A U.S. Marine M1 Abrams tank of the U.S. 1st Marine Division patrols a Baghdad street after its capture in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Date: 20 March 2003 – 18 December 2011 (8 years, 8 months and 28 days) Location: Iraq. Result: ... under the code-name Operation Iraqi Freedom, [152] ...
Battle/Operation name From date To date Location Purpose/Result Operation Iraqi Freedom: 19 March 2003: 31 August 2010: Iraq: U.S. invasion in Iraq. Planned to end with the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops, and succeeded by Operation New Dawn (see 2010 below).
Invasion routes and major battles fought by the coalition and afterwards. This is the order of battle for the invasion of Iraq during the Iraq War between coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces; Fedayeen Saddam irregulars; and others between March 19 and May 1, 2003.
Soldiers on patrol during the American occupation of Ramadi, 16 August 2006. The occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) began on 20 March 2003, when the United States invaded with a military coalition to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and continued until 18 December 2011, when the final batch of American troops left the country.
The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, the Iraq War.. Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, which began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.