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Battle/Operation name From date To date Location Purpose/Result Operation Iraqi Freedom: 19 March 2003: 31 August 2010: Iraq: U.S. invasion in Iraq. Planned to end with the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops, and succeeded by Operation New Dawn (see 2010 below). Operation Bastille: September 2002: March 2003: Throughout Iraq
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states. Operations are categorised ...
President George W. Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office, 19 March 2003, to announce the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the same time, Bush Administration officials advanced a parallel legal argument using the earlier resolutions, which authorized force in response to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
World War II; European Campaign (1944–1945) Operation Southern Watch (1998–2003) Operation Enduring Freedom (2002–2003) Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003–2011) Operation Inherent Resolve (2014–present) Commanders; Notable commanders: Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 8 October 1943 – 3 November 1944; 24 December 1944 – 9 June 1945
May 1: U.S. President George W. Bush declares major combat operations in Iraq over.; May 15 - U.S. forces launch Operation Planet X, capturing roughly 260 people.; May 23 - L. Paul Bremer issues Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2, dissolving the Iraqi Army and other entities of the former Ba'athist state.
A T-72 Asad Babil (Lion of Babylon) battle tank abandoned after facing the final US attack into Baghdad A Marine Corps M1 Abrams tank patrols a Baghdad street after its fall in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. NASA Landsat 7 image of Baghdad, April 2, 2003. The dark streaks are smoke from oil well fires set in an attempt to hinder attacking ...
Operation Black Eagle is an operation that took place during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2010. It was the 381st listed operation during the Iraq war in 2003 [1] [circular reference] Black Eagle was an operation in which U.S. Polish, and Iraqi troops battled gunmen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the town of Al Diwaniyah, which is the capital of Iraq's Al-QÄdisiyyah ...
The study authors drew on many of the Iraqi Freedom documents, together with interviews with dozens of captured senior Iraqi military and political leaders, and summarized the study's key findings in a Foreign Affairs article, [13] and have also made their full report [14] available.