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  1. Date20 March 200318 December 2011 · (8 years, 8 months and 28 days)
    LocationIraq

    Iraq War - Wikipedia

    • The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency e… See more

     Who Really Won?
    Who Really Won?
    The Iraq War was a long and costly conflict that started in 2003 with the US-led invasion of Saddam Hussein's regime.
    Background

    Strong international opposition to the Saddam Hussein regime began following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The international community condemned the invasion, and in 1991 a military coalition led by the Unit… See more

    Pre-war events

    Following 9/11, the Bush administration's national security team actively debated an invasion of Iraq. On the day of the attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his aides for: "best info fast. Judge whether go… See more

    Course of the war

    The first Central Intelligence Agency team entered Iraq on 10 July 2002. This team was composed of members of the CIA's Special Activities Division and was later joined by members of the US military's elite Joint Speci… See more

    Aftermath

    The invasion and occupation led to sectarian violence, which caused widespread displacement among Iraqi civilians. Since the beginning of the war, the first parliamentary elections were held in 2005 which … See more

    Casualties

    For coalition death totals see the infobox at the top right. See also Casualties of the Iraq War, which has casualty numbers for coalition nations, contractors, non-Iraqi civilians, journalists, media helpers, aid workers, an… See more

    Impacts

    In March 2013, the total cost of the Iraq War to date was estimated at $1.7 trillion by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Some argue that the total cost of the war to the US econo… See more

    Criticism

    The Bush administration's rationale for the Iraq War has faced heavy criticism from an array of popular and official sources both inside and outside the United States, with many US citizens finding many parallels with the … See more

     
  1. Iraq War, conflict in Iraq (2003–11) that consisted of two phases: a conventionally fought war in March–April 2003, in which a combined force of troops primarily from the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq and defeated Iraqi military forces, and a second phase consisting of a U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
    www.britannica.com/event/Iraq-War
    Iraq War: U.S. soldiers Iraq War, or Second Persian Gulf War, (2003–11) War in Iraq that consisted of two phases: a brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and protracted Iraqi armed insurgency against it.
    www.britannica.com/summary/Iraq-War
  2. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago?

    On 20 March 2003, US and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. The US said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was a threat to international peace, but most...

  3. Timeline: The Iraq War - Council on Foreign Relations

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  5. The long-lasting impact of the U.S. invasion of Iraq

    Mar 29, 2023 · It led to a near-decade of civil war and occupation, no discovery of weapons of mass destruction, the deaths of more than 4,400 American troops and an estimated 300,000 Iraqis. Amna Nawaz...

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  7. The U.S.-led Invasion of Iraq, 20 Years Later

    Mar 17, 2023 · As ISIS burst onto the world stage and seized vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, filmmakers Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore and Mike Wiser traced how the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, its...

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