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President Bush announces military actions against Iraq.
President Bush announces military actions against Iraq. -
Members of the 507th Maintenance Company are ambushed and captured outside Nasiriyah, Iraq.
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Saddam Hussein's rule collapses in a matter of hours as much of Baghdad comes under American control.
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President Bush declares that the military phase of the battle to topple Saddam Hussein's government is "one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11th, 2001, and still goes on."
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A suicide bomber drives a cement mixer full of explosives into the side of the United Nations compound in Baghdad and blows it up, killing 17 people and wounding at least 100
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The C.I.A.'s former chief weapons inspector, David A. Kay, says American intelligence agencies failed to detect that Iraq's unconventional weapons programs were in a state of disarray.
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Four Blackwater private security employees are killed in Falluja.
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President Bush says he is deeply disgusted by photographs that show American soldiers smiling, laughing and holding their thumbs up as naked Iraqi.
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Fifteen months after Saddam Hussein's removal from power, the American authorities transfer formal sovereignty of Iraq to its new leaders.
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American military deaths in Iraq operations surpass the 1,000 mark.
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Between 10,000 and 15,000 American soldiers and Marines backed by newly trained Iraqi forces move on Falluja.
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Iraq begins a first free election.
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Saddam Hussein goes on trial for the killing of 148 people in 1992.
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United States forces declared a formal end to their operations of Iraq.
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Saddam Hussein, once the all-powerful leader of Iraq, is arrested without a fight by American soldiers who find him crouching in an eight-foot hole at an isolated farm near Tikrit.