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The war led to an estimated 150,000 to over a million deaths, including more than 100,000 civilians, with most deaths occurring during the post-invasion insurgency and subsequent civil war. The war had lasting geopolitical effects, including the emergence of the extremist Islamic State, whose rise led to the 2013–2017 War in Iraq, which ...
Iraq remained a co-belligerent state of the Axis Powers and ally of Nazi Germany until it fought against the United Kingdom during the Anglo-Iraqi War in May 1941, which resulted in the downfall of Ali's government, the reoccupation of Iraq by the British Empire and the restoration to power of the Regent of Iraq, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, who was ...
On 28 May 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution, initiated by Germany and Iraq and sponsored by 91 UN member states, stating that IS's destruction of cultural heritage may amount to a war crime and urging international measures to halt such acts, which it described as a "tactic of war". [74]
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 .
Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers: 1983 1986 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq Part of the Iran–Iraq War and the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict: Iraq: KDP PUK: 1983 1983 United States invasion of Grenada United States Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Cuba ...
The Task Force then attacked 300 kilometers across southern Iraq into northern Kuwait, severing Iraqi lines of communication, and then drove north once again into Iraq to assist in the seizure of the City of Safwan and the securing of the Safwan Air Base for the Coalition Forces–Iraqi cease-fire negotiations. During the operation, over 50 ...
Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...
WWII: Assault on Germany (Siegfried Line Campaign, Battle of Hill 400, Operation Varsity) Battle for Baghdad (Battle of Baghdad) North Hollywood shootout; WWII: The Pacific (Makin Raid, New Georgia Campaign, Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Luzon) SWAT Team Shootouts (1991 Sacramento hostage crisis) Iraq's Ambush Alley (Battle of Nasiriyah) Hunt ...