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Most of the Iraqi military was quickly defeated and the coalition occupied Baghdad on 9 April. Other operations occurred against pockets of the Iraqi Army, including the capture and occupation of Kirkuk on 10 April, and the attack on and capture of Tikrit on 15 April.
At dawn on 20 March 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom began with 295,000 US and allied troops invading Iraq across its border with Kuwait. 70,000 members of the Kurdish Peshmerga militia fought Iraqi...
4 dni temu · Iraq War, conflict in Iraq (2003–11) that consisted of two phases: a conventionally fought war in March–April 2003, in which a combined force of troops primarily from the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq and defeated Iraqi military forces, and a second phase consisting of a U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
A car burns on a bridge over the Euphrates River 31 March 2003 in Al Hindiyah, Iraq. U.S. Army Task Force 464, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, seized the bridge as part of its campaign to...
On 20 March 2003, a coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq. Also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, the attack was the first stage of the Iraq War. It took less than three weeks for coalition forces to surge into Baghdad and end Saddam Hussein’s 30-year reign. However, Operation Iraqi Freedom is far more complex than at first glance.
20 mar 2003 · 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.
An operation of about thirty American attack helicopters attack the Medina Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard, entrenched in the Karbala area. One U.S. Army Apache helicopter is shot down and captured by Iraqi civilians, along with its two crewmen, who appear later on Arab satellite TV channels.
