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Also Known As Second Persian Gulf War • Operation Iraqi Freedom
Date March 2003 - December 2011
Location Iraq
Participants Iraq • United Kingdom • United States
Context war on terrorism

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President Barack Obama stands smiling with arms crossed in the Oval Office, with the American flag and presidential seal visible behind him.
Barack Obama
president of United States
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
president of United States
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
prime minister of United Kingdom
Moqtada al-Sadr, wearing a black turban and robe, stands between two men in traditional clerical attire in Najaf, Iraq, 2012.
Muqtada al-Sadr
Iraqi Shiʿi leader and cleric
Saddam Hussein sits behind a wooden barrier in an Iraqi courtroom, holding a yellow paper and listening during a legal proceeding.
Saddam Hussein
president of Iraq
Lori Piestewa
Lori Piestewa
American soldier
Jonny Kim
Jonny Kim
Korean American naval officer and astronaut
United States General Stanley McChrystal in military uniform speaks at a podium with a White House emblem in the background.
Stanley McChrystal
American military officer
Gen. David Petraeus.
David Petraeus
American military officer
Dunford, Joseph
Joseph Dunford
American military officer
Robert M. Gates
Robert M. Gates
American government official
Cheney, Dick
Dick Cheney
vice president of United States
Ayad Allawi
Ayad Allawi
prime minister of Iraq
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
American government official
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
American government official
Michelle Howard
Michelle Howard
United States admiral
Martin Dempsey.
Martin Dempsey
American military officer
Tommy Franks during a press briefing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, 2002.
Tommy Franks
United States general
Wolfowitz, Paul
Paul Wolfowitz
United States government official
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
American military officer and statesman

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