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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).
June 28: At 10:26 am, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority formally transferred sovereignty of Iraqi territory to the Iraqi interim government, two days ahead of schedule. L. Paul Bremer departed the country two hours later. June 30: Saddam Hussein and eleven high ex-governmental figures are put under the Iraqi Interim Government's authority.
President George W. Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office, 19 March 2003, to announce the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the same time, Bush Administration officials advanced a parallel legal argument using the earlier resolutions, which authorized force in response to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
On 17 February 2010, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of 1 September, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn". [318] On 18 April, US and Iraqi forces killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq in a joint American and Iraqi operation near Tikrit, Iraq. [319]
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.
Operation Iraqi Freedom force organization changed frequently. In the listings below "BN" refers to a battalion, a military unit. In the United States and United Kingdom, a combat battalion is usually approximately 600-800 personnel strong.
A T-72 Asad Babil (Lion of Babylon) battle tank abandoned after facing the final US attack into Baghdad A Marine Corps M1 Abrams tank patrols a Baghdad street after its fall in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. NASA Landsat 7 image of Baghdad, April 2, 2003. The dark streaks are smoke from oil well fires set in an attempt to hinder attacking ...
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.