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2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq
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2003 invasion of Iraq غزو العراق (Arabic) داگیرکردنی عێراق (Kurdish) | |||||||
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Part of the War on terror and the Iraq War | |||||||
Clockwise from top-left: American troops from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, escort Iraqi prisoners of war to a holding area in the desert; American convoy of Humvees in northern Iraq during a sandstorm; Iraqi civilians cheer as American soldiers topple Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square; American troops from the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, watch an Iraqi paramilitary's headquarters burn in Samawah | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Coalition of the willing Iraqi National Congress |
Republic of Iraq PMOI[4] Islamic Emirate of Byara | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
George W. Bush Dick Cheney Donald Rumsfeld Colin Powell Tommy Franks Tony Blair Geoff Hoon Brian Burridge John Howard Peter Cosgrove Aleksander Kwaśniewski Leszek Miller Masoud Barzani Babakir Zebari Jalal Talabani Kosrat Rasul Ali Ahmed Chalabi |
Saddam Hussein Qusay Hussein Uday Hussein Abid Hamid Mahmud Ali Hassan al-Majid Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Ra'ad al-Hamdani Taha Yassin Ramadan Tariq Aziz Massoud Rajavi (MIA) Maryam Rajavi | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Total: 589,799 466,985 personnel[10] 50,000 troops 2,000 troops 194 special forces[11] 70,000 troops[12] 620 troops |
Total: 1,311,000 Iraqi Armed Forces: 538,000 active 650,000 reserves[13][14] 4,000 tanks[15] 3,700 APCs and IFVs 2,300 artillery pieces 300 combat aircraft[16] SRG: 12,000 RG: 75,000 Fedayeen Saddam: 30,000 Arab volunteers: 6,000[17] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Total: 747+
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Total: 30,000+
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Estimated Iraqi civilian fatalities: |