Outline of the Iraq War

{{Short description|Overview and topical guide}}

The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, the Iraq War.

Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, which began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.{{cite news |author=Patrick E. Tyler |date=21 March 2003 |title=A nation at war: The attack; U.S. and British troops push into Iraq as missiles strike Baghdad compound |page=B8 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/world/nation-war-attack-us-british-troops-push-into-iraq-missiles-strike-baghdad.html}}{{Cite web |last=Taddonio |first=Patrice |date=March 17, 2023 |title=The U.S.-led Invasion of Iraq, 20 Years Later |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/iraq-war-invasion-anniversary-20-years-documentaries/ |website=PBS Frontline}} The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. US troops were officially withdrawn in 2011.{{cite news |last=Denselow |first=James |date=25 October 2011 |title=The US departure from Iraq is an illusion |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/25/us-departure-iraq-illusion |access-date=10 February 2014}}{{cite news |last=Jaffe |first=Greg |date=18 December 2011 |title=Last U.S. troops cross Iraqi border into Kuwait |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/last-us-troops-cross-iraqi-border-into-kuwait/2011/12/17/gIQArEyX1O_story.html |access-date=19 December 2011}} The invasion occurred as part of the George W. Bush administration's war on terror following the September 11 attacks.{{cite news |last=Garamone |first=Jim |date=19 September 2002 |title=Iraq Part of Global War on Terrorism, Rumsfeld Says |publisher=American Forces Press Service |url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2002/n09192002_200209194.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929203848/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2002/n09192002_200209194.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}}{{Cite web |last=Marsi |first=Federica |date=March 19, 2023 |title=How the US and UK tried to justify the invasion of Iraq |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/19/examining-justifications-us-invasion-iraq |website=Al Jazeera}}

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Overview of articles

= Top level overview articles =

= Major overview subdivisions =

= Timelines =

= Years in Iraq =

Background to the Iraq War

{{Events leading to the Iraq War}}

= Historical background =

== Before 1990 ==

== 1990–2001 ==

Participants of the Iraq War

{{Main|Combatants of the Iraq War}}

= Multi-National Force – Iraq =

{{Main|Multi-National Force – Iraq}}

{{Further|United States Forces – Iraq|Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War|Task Force Viking}}File:U.S. Marines with Iraqi POWs - March 21, 2003.jpg escorting Iraqi prisoners of war to a holding area in the desert, 21 March 2003.{{Cite web |title=Defense.gov News Photos |url=http://www.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=4335 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219175611/http://www.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=4335 |archive-date=December 19, 2014 |website=U.S. Department of Defense}}]]

== March 2003 invasion forces ==

== Other contributors ==

= Iraq =

= Insurgent groups =

{{See also|Tactics of the Iraqi insurgency}}

== Ba'athist insurgents ==

== Sunni insurgents ==

== Shi'a insurgents ==

= Private militaries =

= Others =

  • {{Flagdeco|Canada}} Canada
  • {{Flagdeco|Islamic Republic of Iran}} Iran

Prelude

= Rationale for invasion =

{{Main|Rationale for the Iraq War}}

File:Colin Powell anthrax vial. 5 Feb 2003 at the UN.jpg, holding up a model vial of alleged weaponized anthrax during a February 2003 presentation at the United Nations.{{Cite web |date=February 5, 2003 |title=U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security Council |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030411134510/http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html |archive-date=April 11, 2003 |website=The White House}}]]

Media and communications of the Iraq War

= Documents =

= Public relations, propaganda and disinformation =

= Slogans, symbols and neologisms =

Battles of the Iraq War

{{Campaignbox Iraq War}}

All battles are sorted in chronological order.

= Invasion phase (2003) =

= First insurgency phase (2003–2006) =

{{Main|2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency}}

== 2003 battles ==

== 2004 battles ==

== 2005 battles ==

= Civil war (2006–2008) =

{{Main|Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)}}

== 2006 battles ==

== 2007 battles ==

== 2008 battles ==

= Second insurgency phase (2008–2011) =

Economics of the Iraq War

Human rights and war crimes in the Iraq War

= Casualties =

== Estimates of Iraqi casualties ==

{{Further|Casualties of the Iraq War#Total Iraqi casualties}}File:Iraq Body Count project flags.png and American deaths respectively, sit in the grass quadrangle of The Valley Library on the campus of Oregon State University. (May 2008)]]

= Chemical weapons =

= Disease =

= Ethnic and religious attacks =

Attacks are sorted in chronological order.

== 2003 attacks ==

== 2004 attacks ==

== 2005 attacks ==

== 2006 attacks ==

== 2007 attacks ==

== 2008 attacks ==

== 2009 attacks ==

== 2010 attacks ==

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== 2011 attacks ==

= Hostages and kidnapping =

== Hostage-taking and kidnapping by insurgents ==

== Hostage-taking and kidnapping by coalition forces ==

= Prisons and torture =

File:AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg, standing on a box with wires attached to his hands.{{Cite web |date=May 2004 |title=Torture scandal: the images that shamed America |url=https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0%2C8542%2C1211872%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516053845/https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,8542,1211872,00.html |archive-date=16 May 2018 |website=The Guardian}}]]

== Torture methods ==

= Refugees and internal displacement =

= Targeted violence =

= War crimes by U.S.-led coalition forces =

== War crimes by the Iraqi Army ==

= Other human rights topics =

Law and the Iraq War

= Case law =

== UK case law ==

== US case law ==

= Commissions, inquiries and reports =

== Unofficial commissions ==

= Courts-martial =

= International law =

= Resolutions, agreements and legislation =

== De-Ba'athification ==

== United Nations Security Council resolutions (2003–2011) ==

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= Saddam Hussein =

Governments, elections and referendums of the Iraq War

= Governments =

== Governments of Iraq ==

{{Further|Transitional Administrative Law (Iraq)}}File:Baghdad Convention Center inside.jpg holding a meeting in the Baghdad Convention Center, December 2008]]

== Governments of the United Kingdom ==

== Governments of the United States ==

= Elections and referendums =

== In Iraq ==

== In the United Kingdom ==

== In the United States ==

Protests against the Iraq War

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Protests are sorted in chronological order.

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= Anti-Iraq War groups =

Groups are sorted in alphabetical order.

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Scandals and controversies of the Iraq War

Scandals and controversies are sorted in roughly chronological order.

= American scandals and controversies =

= British scandals and controversies =

= Other scandals and controversies =

Views on the Iraq War

Aftermath of the Iraq War

= Aftermath in Iraq =

= Memorials =

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Lists of the Iraq War

See also

= Contemporaneous conflicts in Iraq =

References

= Notes =

= Citations =

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