Operation Iraqi Freedom

By alaynam123

  • U.S. begins invasion of Iraq

    American, British, Australian, Polish, and Danish military operations begin; ground troops move into Iraq

  • Fall of Baghdad

    Coalition forces move in, ending 24 year reign of Saddam Hussein

  • Operation Planet X

    Captured roughly 260 people

  • Operation Desert Scorpian

    a series of raids across Iraq intended to find Iraqi resistance and heavy weapons

  • First post Saddam government

  • Heaviest loss of coalition troops up to that time

    16 soldiers killed and 20 wounded

  • U.S. military reports killing 46 militants and wounding 18

  • Saddam Hussein captured

    Operation Red Dawn

  • Provisional Iraqi constitution signed

  • Battle of Abu Ghraib

  • Trial of Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein appears at his first hearing
  • Period: to

    Battle of Haditha

  • Battle of Samarra

  • Start of Husseins trial

  • 31 US soldiers die in a helicopter crash

    Deadliest day of the entire postwar period for the US military

  • New Iraqi government

    Succeeds to the Iraqi Transitional Government, begins its functions

  • Battle of Ramadi

  • Execution of Saddam Hussein

  • Battle of Basra

  • UK withdrawals combat troops

  • Iraqi parliamentary election