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1 day ago · On the 23rd, the CIA reported that Iraq had moved 30,000 troops to the Iraq-Kuwait border, and the US naval fleet in the Persian Gulf was placed on alert. Saddam believed an anti-Iraq conspiracy was developing – Kuwait had begun talks with Iran, and Iraq's rival Syria had arranged a visit to Egypt. [57]
3 days ago · Result. Inconclusive. 2003–2006 insurgency phase deteriorates into 2006–2008 civil war. 20,000+ additional American soldiers deployed to Iraq to quell violence in troop surge of 2007. Coalition failure to defeat Iraqi insurgency [7] [8] [9] [10] End of American military presence in Iraq with 2007–2011 withdrawal.
- 1 May 2003 – 18 December 2011, (8 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
- Iraq
4 days ago · The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international ...
1 day ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp. And this camp is located in northeastern Iraq.
- 1989–2006
5 days ago · FOLLOW. With the war in the Gaza Strip beginning a new phase after Israeli forces entered the southern city of Rafah, a coalition of Iraqi militias claimed six missile and drone strikes in one day ...
5 days ago · North Africa campaigns, (1940–43), in World War II, series of battles for control of North Africa. At stake was control of the Suez Canal, a vital lifeline for Britain’s colonial empire, and of the valuable oil reserves of the Middle East. Track the League of Nations' continual failure to check via diplomacy the Axis powers' pre-World War ...
