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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.
2 days ago · Iraq is a country in southwestern Asia. During ancient times, lands that now constitute Iraq were known as Mesopotamia. The modern nation-state of Iraq was created following World War I from the Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul. The capital city is Baghdad.
13 hours ago · Veteran journalist Chip Reid, who was embedded with U.S. forces during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, talks to combat veterans and their families about how the war changed their lives.
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 ...
2 days ago · Iraq - Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Invasion: Relations with Iran had grown increasingly strained after the shah was overthrown in 1979. Iraq recognized Iran’s new Shiʿi Islamic government, but the Iranian leaders would have nothing to do with the Baʿath regime, which they denounced as secular.
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.
4 days ago · The Iran-Iraq War ended in August 1988. The following January, Iraq announced it would reopen its airspace to civilian flights from Iran for the first time since 1980.
