Iraq War 2003–2011: Key Battles, Impact, and Aftermath 🇺🇸

Shock and Awe shook the world. In March 2003, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq, promising to dismantle Saddam Hussein’s regime and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. What followed was eight years of war, chaos, and bloodshed.

From the lightning fall of Baghdad in just 21 days, to brutal insurgencies in Fallujah and Mosul, the Iraq War became a grinding conflict that claimed over 4,500 U.S. lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Sectarian violence tore the nation apart, and the echoes of war still haunt the region today.

In the end, U.S. troops withdrew in 2011… but the power vacuum paved the way for the rise of IS, reshaping the Middle East forever.

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