The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [83][84] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the United States under the administration of George W. Bush, actively pressed for military action against Iraq, claiming that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and having ties with al-Qaeda.

Shortly before the Iraq War began, the US government announced that 49 countries were joined in a "coalition of the willing" in favor of forcibly removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, with some number of other countries expressing their support in private.

2005年2月3日 · Iraq had an extensive air defense force, a 15,000-man unit that was believed to have more than 850 surface-to-air missile launchers and some 4,000 anti-aircraft guns. U.S. experts had disagreed...

The recent fight between Iraqi forces and ISIL, as well as, their inclusion and then their removal from President Donald Trump's travel ban, has pushed the war torn country back into the spotlight. But what did Iraq looked like before the US invasion in 2003?

2022年8月16日 · The Iraq War, commonly known as the Second Persian Gulf War, was a two-phase battle in Iraq. Learn about its background, timeline, causes, impact of war and more

2005年11月23日 · The real history, according to the president, is that Iraq was a threat that had to be confronted in a post-Sept. 11 world, and that both parties accepted the administration's case for war. One...

According to the “Senate Report on Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq,” Iraq’s capability to keep track of and detain al-Zarqawi was overvalued. Many officials believed that Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad’s use of Iraq as a home base meant Saddam offered safe haven to the Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists or, even worse, used his regime to fund and support ...

2023年1月1日 · The Iran-Iraq war was a conflict between a country with a majority Arab population—Iraq—and a country with a majority non-Arab population—Iran. Hence, when the war started, the Iraqi regime hailed the conflict as ‘Saddam’s Qadisiyyah’, referring to the battle of Qadisiyyah in the year 636 when Arabs conquered Persia (Lewental, 2014 ).

2014年6月25日 · The last decade of conflict — and prior centuries of violence — in Iraq makes the country look and sound