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Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) Iraqi civil war (2006–2008), a civil war between Sunni and Shia militias including the Iraqi government and Al-Qaeda in Iraq (now known as ISIL) Islamic Army–Al-Qaeda conflict; Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), an escalation of insurgent and sectarian violence after the U.S. withdrew; War in Iraq (2013–2017 ...
The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict from 2006 to 2008 between various sectarian Shia and Sunni armed groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Mahdi Army, in addition to the Iraqi government alongside American-led coalition forces.
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 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 ...
Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war
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 ...
The Battle of Baghdad began in February 2006 and continued until May 2008, for control of the capital city of Iraq. A combined force of Iraqi security forces and the allies including the U.S. Army fought against insurgents to retain control of the city during the sectarian civil war that engulfed the country in 2006. [6] [7] [8]
This list includes any raid, strike, skirmish, siege, sacking, and/or battle (land, naval, and air) that occurred on the territories of what may today be referred to as Iraq; however, in which the conflict itself may have only been part of an operation of a campaign in a theater of a greater war (e.g. any and/or all border, undeclared, colonial ...