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  1. Jun 11, 2024 · Iraq War, (2003–11), conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. The first of these was a brief, conventionally fought war in March–April 2003, in which a combined force of troops from the United States and Great Britain (with smaller contingents from several other countries) invaded Iraq and rapidly defeated Iraqi military ...

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  2. 3 days ago · The 2003 invasion of Iraq (20 March – 1 May 2003) began the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein within 26 days of major combat operations.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gulf_WarGulf War - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · The following names have been used to describe the conflict itself: Gulf War and Persian Gulf War are the most common terms for the conflict used within western countries, though it may also be called the First Gulf War (to distinguish it from the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent Iraq War).

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  4. 3 days ago · 268,000 - 295,000 people were killed in violence in the Iraq war from March 2003 - Oct. 2018, including 182,272 - 204,575 civilians (using Iraq Body Count's figures), according to the findings of the Costs of War Project, a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, assembled by Brown University ...

  5. Jun 11, 2024 · Iraq War - Occupation, Insurgency, Sectarianism: After the collapse of the Ba'athist regime, there was looting, outbreaks of violence, and full-scale guerrilla warfare. Sectarian violence was carried out by rival Shiʿi and Sunni militias.

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  6. 4 days ago · At 9:30 pm Eastern Time on March 19, 2003, US missiles struck Iraq in an attempted decapitation strike against Saddam Hussein. Forty-five minutes later, Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office and explained that the United States was at war with Iraq.

  7. 4 days ago · Iraq war files. Also in October 2010, WikiLeaks made public almost 400,000 secret US files on the Iraq war. In 2003, the US government under President George W Bush invaded Iraq.