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The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [83] [84] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
Iraqi troops ambushed her supply convoy when it took a wrong turn. The 507th Maintenance Company would lose 11 soldiers in the ambush, among them Pfc. Lori Piestewa, Johnson's good friend and the first woman to be killed in the war. [1] There had been bitter fighting around Nasiriyah, a vital crossing point of the River Euphrates. Johnson was ...
The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, followed by a series of conflicts including the protracted Iraq War (2003–2011), the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), the War in Iraq (2013–2017), and most recently, the small-scale Islamic State insurgency in rural parts of Northern Iraq ...
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [24] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq.
Karyn Turner, circa 1977. Karyn Turner (born 1946) is an American martial arts expert who has been variously known as “The Queen of Kata”, [1] “First Lady of Kung Fu”, [2] and “The Mother of U.S. Kickboxing”. [3]
At the time, violence in the country was at its lowest since the start of the Iraq War in 2003. The United States even had plans to withdraw its troops. Four years have passed, and while massacres in Iraq have diminished in frequency, they have persisted — even as many Americans believed sectarian violence had been suppressed.
But during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it proved especially hard to maintain a sense of moral balance. These wars lacked the moral clarity of World War II, with its goal of unconditional surrender. Some troops chafed at being sent not to achieve military victory, but for nation-building (“As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down”). The ...
Pages in category "Women in the Iraq War" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.