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The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq. Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces Land Component Command elements, led by the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, captured Baghdad. Over 2,000 Iraqi soldiers as ...
U.S. Marines battle Iraqi forces near the city of Nassiriya, a key crossing of the Euphrates about 225 miles (362 km) southeast of Baghdad. News media report that pictures of British and American soldiers wounded and killed by Iraqi forces were shown by the Arabian Al Jazeera TV network.
March 2: Multiple bombings in Baghdad and Karbala at the climax of the Shi'a festival of Aashurah kill nearly 200, the deadliest attacks up to that time. [14] March 8: Provisional Iraqi Constitution signed. March 31: 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush: Four Blackwater contractors ambushed and killed in Fallujah, causing a First Battle of Fallujah.
However, the people of Baghdad remained largely passive, as the Dawa Party, the Communist Party, and the pro-Syrian Ba'ath splinter party had all failed to build underground structures in the capital. [19] There was only a limited unrest in the Shia-populated vast slum of Saddam City while the rest of Baghdad remained calm.
The 2004 Good Friday ambush was an attack by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004 during the Iraq War on a convoy of United States supply trucks during the Battle of Baghdad International Airport. It happened in the midst of the Iraq spring fighting of 2004 , which saw intensified clashes throughout the country.
The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, the Iraq War.. Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, which began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.
Here is a look back at key events over the past six years. A vigil was held outside the Iranian Embassy in Kensington, central London, for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in 2017 (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Baghdad International Film Festival begins. [43] 2006 22 February: Battle of Baghdad (2006–2008) 7 April: Buratha Mosque bombing. 1 July: Sadr City bombing. 9 July: Hay al Jihad massacre. 23 November: Sadr City bombings. 2007 16 January: Mustansiriya University bombings. 22 January: Bombings. 3 February: Market bombing.