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Battle/Operation name From date To date Location Purpose/Result Operation Iraqi Freedom: 19 March 2003: 31 August 2010: Iraq: U.S. invasion in Iraq. Planned to end with the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops, and succeeded by Operation New Dawn (see 2010 below). Operation Bastille: September 2002: March 2003: Throughout Iraq
[47] This legislation contrasted with the terms set out in United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, which focused on weapons and weapons programs and made no mention of regime change. [48] One month after the passage of the Iraq Liberation Act, the U.S. and UK launched a bombardment campaign of Iraq called Operation Desert Fox. The ...
Soldiers on patrol during the American occupation of Ramadi, 16 August 2006. The occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) began on 20 March 2003, when the United States invaded with a military coalition to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and continued until 18 December 2011, when the final batch of American troops left the country.
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Liberation of Iraq – 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003. Transition of Iraq – 2 May 2003 to 28 June 2004. Iraqi Governance – 29 June 2004 to 15 December 2005. National Resolution – 16 December 2005 to 9 January 2007. Iraqi Surge - 10 January 2007 to 18 December 2008. Iraqi Sovereignty – 1 January 2009 to 31 August 2010.
May 1: U.S. President George W. Bush declares major combat operations in Iraq over.; May 15 - U.S. forces launch Operation Planet X, capturing roughly 260 people.; May 23 - L. Paul Bremer issues Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2, dissolving the Iraqi Army and other entities of the former Ba'athist state.
Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 documents are some 48,000 boxes of documents, audiotapes and videotapes that were discovered by the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The documents date from the 1980s through the post-Saddam period.
This is the order of battle for the invasion of Iraq during the Iraq War between coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces; Fedayeen Saddam irregulars; and others between March 19 and May 1, 2003. The United States Army has defined an "order of battle" as the "identification and command structure" of a unit or formation. [2]
U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams pose for a photo under the Victory Arch at Baghdad's Ceremony Square in 2003. A U.S. Marine M1 Abrams tank of the U.S. 1st Marine Division patrols a Baghdad street after its capture in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.