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Foreign aid to Iraq has increased to handle reconstruction efforts. In 2004 the U.S. Agency for International Development was responsible for awarding contracts totaling US$900 million for capital construction, seaport renovation, personnel support, public education , public health , government administration, and airport management.
Using the AidData database, it is possible to search for U.S. foreign aid activities financed between 1973 and 2008, and download them as a CSV file. Congressional Research Service. Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S. Programs and Policy (2011) 37 pp online; Guess, George M. The Politics of United States Foreign Aid (2013) Lancaster ...
The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the drafting of the new constitution following the National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005.
Throughout 2005, South Korea's was the third largest foreign military deployment in Iraq, behind the United Kingdom. In early 2006, 1,300 troops were withdrawn following a December 2005 vote by the National Assembly (10-3 with one abstention). [ 9 ]
Margaret Hassan (née Fitzsimons; 18 April 1945 – 8 November 2004) was an Irish aid worker who had worked in Iraq for many years until she was abducted by unidentified assailants in Baghdad during the Iraqi insurgency.
Reports of Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran reached the CIA as early as 1983, but the U.S. took no action to restrain Iraq's violations of international law, failing even to alert the UN. [43] By November 1983, the State Department had been briefed on Iraq's "almost daily use of [chemical weapons]". [44]
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 last non-American foreign forces left Iraq on 31 July 2009 and Multi-National Forces West became United States Force – West. [ 368 ] [ 369 ] On 23 January 2010, the Marines formally left both Anbar Governorate and Iraq, transferring American military commitments over to the United States Army's 1st Armored Division.