In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein.

were erupting between the Shiite Mahdi militia and. Iraqi government forces. The latter forces, largely made up of Shiite personnel, reportedly suffered two.

This section traces the broad evolution of the Iraq war against Islamic State between 2013 and 2017 by identifying its main conflict episodes and by ...

Iraqi civil war may refer to: Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003), wars and rebellions by Iraqi Kurds against the government. First Iraqi–Kurdish War ...

As SECTARIAN violence spiked in Baghdad around last Thanksgiving,. Bush administration spokespeople found themselves engaged in a.

Administration officials have been right in recent weeks to argue that there is no large-scale civil war underway in Iraq. As long as the Iraqi political ...

Country Lead: Jacob N. Shapiro Following the U.S. invasion in March 2003 Iraq suffered a lengthy civil war in which over 100000 civilians were killed, ...

Third, will United Nations Security Council resolutions undergird the international legitimacy of the new Iraqi Government and all of the security arrangements ...

3 дня назад · Iraq War, conflict in Iraq (2003–11) that consisted of two phases: a conventionally fought war in March–April 2003, in which a combined ...

Outside intervention in civil warfare is important for humanitarian, theoretical, and practical policy reasons—since 2006, much of the debate over the war ...