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- Iraq_War abstract "The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition. The invasion regime toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. However, the conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 or more Iraqis were killed in the first 3–4 years of conflict. The United States officially withdrew from the country in 2011 but became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition; the insurgency and many dimensions of the civil armed conflict continue.The invasion began on 20 March 2003, with the U.S., joined by the United Kingdom and several coalition allies, launching a \"shock and awe\" bombing campaign. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U.S. forces swept through the country. The invasion led to the collapse of the Ba'athist government; Saddam was captured on December 2003 in Operation Red Dawn and executed by a military court three years later. However, the power vacuum following Saddam's demise and the mismanagement of the occupation led to widespread sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis as well as a lengthy insurgency against U.S. and coalition forces. The United States responded with a troop surge in 2007 to attempt to reduce the violence. The U.S. began withdrawing its troops in the winter of 2007–08. The winding down of U.S. involvement in Iraq accelerated under President Barack Obama. The U.S. formally withdrew all combat troops from Iraq by December 2011.The Bush administration based its rationale for war principally on the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that Saddam's government posed an immediate threat to the United States and its coalition allies. Select U.S. officials accused Saddam of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, while others cited the desire to end a repressive dictatorship and bring democracy to the people of Iraq. After the invasion, no substantial evidence was found to verify the initial claims about WMDs. The rationale and misrepresentation of pre-war intelligence faced heavy criticism within the U.S. and internationally.As a result of the war, Iraq held multi-party elections in 2005. Nouri al-Maliki became Prime Minister in 2006 and remained in office until 2014. The al-Maliki government enacted policies that were widely seen as having the effect of alienating the country's Sunni minority and worsening sectarian tensions. In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a military offensive in Northern Iraq and declared a worldwide Islamic caliphate, eliciting another military response from the United States and its allies. The Iraq War caused hundreds of thousands of civilian, and thousands of military casualties (see estimates below). The majority of casualties occurred as a result of the insurgency and civil conflicts between 2004 and 2007.".
- Iraq_War causalties "Awakening Councils".
- Iraq_War causalties "Coalition forces".
- Iraq_War causalties "Contractors".
- Iraq_War causalties "Injured/diseases/other medical*: 51,139 (47,541 U.S., 3,598 UK)".
- Iraq_War causalties "Iraqi Security Forces (post-Saddam)".
- Iraq_War causalties "Killed: 1,002+".
- Iraq_War causalties "Killed: 1,554".
- Iraq_War causalties "Killed: 17,690".
- Iraq_War causalties "Killed: 4,809 (4,491 U.S., 179 UK, 139 other)".
- Iraq_War causalties "Missing/captured (U.S.): 17 (8 rescued, 9 died in captivity)".
- Iraq_War causalties "Total dead: 25,286".
- Iraq_War causalties "Total wounded: 117,961".
- Iraq_War causalties "Wounded & injured: 43,880".
- Iraq_War causalties "Wounded: 32,753+ (32,226 U.S., 315 UK, 212+ other)".
- Iraq_War causalties "Wounded: 40,000+".
- Iraq_War causalties "Wounded: 500+ (2007), 828 (2008)".
- Iraq_War combatant "Ba'athist Iraq".
- Iraq_War combatant "Invasion phase (2003)".
- Iraq_War combatant "Peshmerga".
- Iraq_War combatant "support from:".
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Abdullah_al-Shafii.
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Ayyub_al-Masri.
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi.
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Deraa.
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi.
- Iraq_War commander Abu_Omar_al-Baghdadi.
- Iraq_War commander Anders_Fogh_Rasmussen.
- Iraq_War commander Ayad_Allawi.
- Iraq_War commander Barack_Obama.
- Iraq_War commander David_Cameron.
- Iraq_War commander David_Petraeus.
- Iraq_War commander George_W._Bush.
- Iraq_War commander George_W._Casey,_Jr..
- Iraq_War commander Gordon_Brown.
- Iraq_War commander Ibrahim_al-Jaafari.
- Iraq_War commander Ismail_Jubouri.
- Iraq_War commander Izzat_Ibrahim_al-Douri.
- Iraq_War commander John_Howard.
- Iraq_War commander Lloyd_Austin.
- Iraq_War commander Muqtada_al-Sadr.
- Iraq_War commander Nouri_al-Maliki.
- Iraq_War commander Qais_Khazali.
- Iraq_War commander Qasem_Soleimani.
- Iraq_War commander Raymond_T._Odierno.
- Iraq_War commander Ricardo_Sanchez.
- Iraq_War commander Saddam_Hussein.
- Iraq_War commander Tommy_Franks.
- Iraq_War commander Tony_Blair.
- Iraq_War date "2003-03-20".
- Iraq_War isPartOfMilitaryConflict War_on_Terror.
- Iraq_War notes "* "injured, diseased, or other medical": required medical air transport. UK number includes "aeromed evacuations"".
- Iraq_War notes "** Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc.".
- Iraq_War place Iraq.
- Iraq_War result "* Establishment ofdemocratic electionsand formation of newShialed government".
- Iraq_War result "* Iranian hegemony in Iraq".
- Iraq_War result "* Overthrow ofBa'ath Partygovernment andexecution of Saddam Hussein".
- Iraq_War result "* Rise of theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq".
- Iraq_War result "* Subsequent depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, improvements in public security, Iraqi insurgency persists".
- Iraq_War result "*Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawalandspilloverwith theSyrian Civil War".
- Iraq_War result "*Invasionandoccupation of Iraq".
- Iraq_War result "*Iraqi insurgency, emergence ofal-Qaeda in Iraq, andcivil war".
- Iraq_War result "*U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement".
- Iraq_War result "*WithdrawalofU.S. forces from Iraq".
- Iraq_War strength "----".
- Iraq_War strength "112,000 at activation".
- Iraq_War strength "15pxIraqi Republican Guard: 70,000–75,000".
- Iraq_War strength "15pxSpecial Iraqi Republican Guard: 12,000".
- Iraq_War strength "176,000 at peak".
- Iraq_War strength "20pxFedayeen Saddam: 30,000".
- Iraq_War strength "20pxIraqi Armed Forces: 375,000 (disbanded in 2003)".
- Iraq_War strength "309,000".
- Iraq_War strength "805,269 (military andparamilitary: 578,269, police: 227,000)".
- Iraq_War strength ": 192,000".
- Iraq_War strength ": 194".
- Iraq_War strength ": 2,000".
- Iraq_War strength ": 45,000".
- Iraq_War strength "Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order".
- Iraq_War strength "Awakening militias".
- Iraq_War strength "Coalition forces (2004–09)".
- Iraq_War strength "Invasion forces (2003–04)".
- Iraq_War strength "Iraqi Kurdistan".
- Iraq_War strength "Iraqi security forces".
- Iraq_War strength "Islamic State of Iraq".
- Iraq_War strength "Peshmerga: 70,000".
- Iraq_War strength "Security contractors 6,000–7,000 (estimate)".
- Iraq_War strength "Sunni Insurgents".
- Iraq_War strength "United States Forces – Iraq (2010–11)".
- Iraq_War strength "al-Qaeda".
- Iraq_War strength "≈1,000 (2008)".
- Iraq_War strength "≈1,300 (2006)".
- Iraq_War strength "≈103,000 (2008)".
- Iraq_War strength "≈400,000 (Kurdish Border Guard: 30,000, Peshmerga 375,000)".
- Iraq_War strength "≈500–1,000 (2007)".
- Iraq_War strength "≈70,000 (2007)".
- Iraq_War thumbnail Iraq_War_montage.png?width=300.
- Iraq_War wikiPageExternalLink 20030319-17.html.
- Iraq_War wikiPageExternalLink general-principles.
- Iraq_War wikiPageExternalLink iraq.htm.
- Iraq_War wikiPageExternalLink costofwar.com.