✦ History

Iraqi conflict

March 20, 2003 – December 9, 2017

A long armed conflict in Iraq followed the US-led invasion of 2003. It included the Iraqi insurgency, sectarian civil war and the war against the Islamic State.

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Battles and events 3

December 9, 2017
Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)
October 1, 2019 – December 5, 2021
2019–2021 Iraqi protests
November 5, 2021 – October 27, 2022
2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis

Key commanders

United States 31

George W. Bush belligerent leader Barack Obama belligerent leader Donald Trump belligerent leader Joe Biden belligerent leader François Hollande belligerent leader Tony Blair belligerent leader Gordon Brown belligerent leader David Cameron belligerent leader Theresa May belligerent leader Boris Johnson belligerent leader Liz Truss belligerent leader Rishi Sunak belligerent leader Keir Starmer belligerent leader Andy Burnham belligerent leader Emmanuel Macron belligerent leader Ali Khamenei belligerent leader Nouri al-Maliki belligerent leader Haider Al-Abadi belligerent leader Adil Abdul-Mahdi belligerent leader Mustafa Al-Kadhimi belligerent leader Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani belligerent leader Ali Falih Al-Zaidi belligerent leader Donald Rumsfeld belligerent leader Ash Carter belligerent leader Chuck Hagel belligerent leader Leon Panetta belligerent leader Jim Mattis belligerent leader Mark Esper belligerent leader Robert Gates belligerent leader Pete Hegseth belligerent leader Lloyd Austin belligerent leader