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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 .
The Adoption of Ala'a Eddeen is an adoption of a then 9-year-old Iraqi boy, who could not walk because he had cerebral palsy, by American Capt. Scott Southworth while he was deployed during the Iraq War. [1] This case became a beginning of the growing campaign for bringing more disabled and orphaned Iraqi children to the United States. [2]
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 the War in Iraq, an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. The most recent conflict is the ongoing Islamic State insurgency. [4]
This is a list of conflicts in the United States.Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history.This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars, skirmishes, wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars.
Iraqi Civil War. Part of the Iraq War. Public stability: Iraq United States United Kingdom MNF-I Private Security Contractors Peshmerga Sons of Iraq. Sunni factions: Iraqi Ba'ath Party Loyalists. Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order; Ansar al-Sunna Islamic Army of Iraq Sunni tribes Other Sunni ...
George W. Bush announces start to 2003 war in Iraq. After the United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 and subsequent UN weapons inspectors inside Iraq there was a period of low-level hostilities between Iraq and the United States-led coalition from 1991. In late 2001, Bush administration began actively pressing for military intervention ...
In the wake of Hamas' deadly attack against Israel on Oct. 7, graphic images of war have spread across various social media accounts.. To date, over 1,000 Israeli and Palestinian have died as a ...
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.