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Iraq destroys six more Al Samoud missiles, bringing the total destroyed to 10 out of an estimated 100 missiles ordered eliminated by the UN. The White House continues to dismiss Iraq's actions as "part of its game of deception." Iraq indicates that it may halt destruction of the missiles if the U.S. indicates it will go to war anyway. 3 March 2003
The failings in the Iraq War were cited as one of the main causes of the Republicans' defeat, even though the Bush administration had attempted to distance itself from its earlier "stay the course" rhetoric. [19] November 19: Ammar al-Saffar, Deputy Health Minister, becomes the highest-ranking Iraqi to be kidnapped.
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 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.
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biological , chemical and nuclear weapons .
Tensions between Iran and Iraq over the disputed waterway and border escalate into a full-scale war in 1980; Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein: Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) Iraq MEK DRFLA Sudan Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades: Stalemate. Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598; 105,000 375,000 ~100,000 Invasion of Kuwait (1990) Iraq Kuwait ...
Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Iraq disarmament timeline 1990–2003; S. ... Timeline of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007; Timeline of the Plame affair