There has been little comment from the Kurdish government in Iraq's north or authorities in Baghdad but in recent days, pro-Iran armed factions have made unusually tough public comments. If the Biden administration's objectives are to avoid war in the Middle East and keep America safe, continuing to apply the thoroughly discredited "maximum pressure" campaign is the last thing the new president should do. In an address to the nation, President Barack Obama underscores the war's shared sacrifices while stressing that the United States will not abandon Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a U.S.-led air strike near Baquba. Both groups are vehemently opposed to the US-led coalition, deployed in Iraq since 2014 to help local forces beat back the Islamic State group. The trial of Iraq's former dictator ends with a sentence of death by hanging. President Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The United States has reached the Trump administration’s goal to reduce American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,500 each, according to Pentagon chief Chris Miller on Friday. Though it may appear counterintuitive, withdrawing all our combat troops from Iraq and Syria is Biden's best play. President Bush announces U.S. forces have begun a military operation into Iraq. His bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings, and beheadings was deplored by American and Iraqis alike. Two intelligence sources confirmed to AFP that the attack was carried out from within the autonomous Kurdish region. Asaib Ahl al-Haq threatened to fight Turkish troops if their operations expanded and another pro-Iran faction, Ashab Ahl al-Kahf, claimed on Monday it had attacked a Turkish military base along the Iraqi border. Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the autonomous Kurdish region, condemned the attack "in the strongest terms". Rumsfeld's replacement, Robert M. Gates, assumes office the same day. Austin served as a commander in the 2003 Iraq War and later headed U.S. Central Command, where he oversaw the drawdown of U.S. troops and their consequent return to … But progress lags on achieving other "benchmarks" created by Washington, including an oil revenue-sharing law and new provincial elections. U.S. combat troops withdraw from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities in accordance with a Status of Forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States. The urban fighting is successful but costly. Making good on a campaign pledge, President Obama announces plans to remove combat brigades from Iraq by August 2010. Subsequent discussions included expanding NATO's role as a compromise. Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com. The agreement keeps Maliki as prime minister and Jalal Talabani--a Kurd—as president. The attack unleashes waves of sectarian violence in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City that spread across the country. Petreaus's former No. Backed by photographic evidence, the conviction of seven soldiers for the torture and humiliation of detainees brings jail sentences. "In the end, only Iraqis can resolve their differences and police their streets," Obama said. Lawlessness and some skirmishing in the country are written off as the desperate acts of "dead-enders" by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Iraq is a country in the Middle East, bordered by Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Rocket attack on Iraq base hosting US troops kills contractor days before Pope’s visit Issued on: 03/03/2021 - 11:44 An Iraqi security official next to … A new law reverses elements of the 2003 "de-Baathification" policy and allows some to return to government. In March 2020, another rocket attack killed two Americans -- a soldier and a contractor -- and a British soldier. The kidnappers of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, citing Abu Ghraib, videotape his beheading and post it on a jihadist website. December 2009 marks the first full month in which there are no U.S. combat deaths since the beginning of the war. Evidence of prisoner abuse inside the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison becomes public. Around a dozen such groups have cropped up in the last year claiming rocket attacks, but US and Iraqi security officials have told AFP they believe them to be front groups for prominent pro-Iran factions including Kataeb Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq. It was the deadliest attack on US-led forces in nearly one year. A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said. A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said. Follow our special coverage of Coronavirus pandemic in India and get news updates from around the world. According to the report, the troops are set to deploy on nearby oilfields. Gen. David H. Petraeus, fresh from leading a rewriting of U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, assumes command of U.S. forces. The order, coupled with an earlier decision to purge Baathists from the government, has lasting repercussions. Multiple rockets struck an airbase in Iraq hosting U.S. troops on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition forces in the country. President Bush announces a "new way forward" in Iraq, vowing to commit an additional twenty thousand troops to bring stability in and around Baghdad. Three weeks later, the Iraqi parliament approves a pair of agreements outlining future military and civilian relations between Washington and Baghdad, confirming U.S. forces aim to withdraw by 2011. BAGHDAD — At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the … But a power-sharing arrangement with former prime minister Ayad Allawi—whose Iraqiya party won a majority of seats—never takes shape. Critics, including some of the convicted, complain that senior officers and officials are spared. In the south, Shiites take to the streets celebrating. In December 2019, a US contractor was killed in a rocket attack on a base in Kirkuk province, prompting the US to respond with air strikes against Kataeb Hezbollah. The Pentagon says a U.S. contractor died when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq. But even as the coalition withdrew more forces, rocket attacks continued, to Washington's growing frustration. Analysts later point to the Samarra strike as the start of sectarian bloodletting. Since 2003, more than one million airmen, soldiers, sailors, and Marines served in the country. Maliki names thirty-four ministers to his cabinet, including rival Sunni politicians, which U.S. officials say reduces the chances that "disaffected Sunnis will split off and resume sectarian warfare." The costs of the conflict were high: $800 billion from the U.S. Treasury, with nearly 4,500 Americans and well over 100,000 Iraqis killed. A suicide bomber driving an explosives-filled cement mixer destroys the UN headquarters in Iraq, killing in the process Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN special representative to Iraq, and twenty-two members of his staff. Relations with the United States were strained in mid-2006 when Iraq criticized Israeli attacks on Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. In the fall, Shiites flash victory signs—ink-stained fingers—in front of an image of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani after voting in Iraq's constitution referendum. Venezuela: Iraq has an embassy in Caracas. He forms a unity government with Iraqi Kurds and Sunnis the next month. As the five-year anniversary approaches, nearly four thousand U.S. troops have died in the fighting, and an additional thirty thousand have been wounded. A woman in Santa Monica, California, pays homage to the dead at a war memorial. The president's speech follows the failure of U.S. and Iraqi negotiators to reach an accord on a residual contingent of U.S. trainers. ................................ Advertisement ................................ 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The attack targeted the same base where Iran struck in January last year in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Three weeks after the invasion, Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam in Baghdad's Firdos Square. All U.S. forces are scheduled to leave by the end of 2011, though a recent uptick in violence and an ongoing political deadlock—six months after the March 2010 parliamentary voting, a coalition government has yet to be formed—prompts new calls for a reevaluation of Washington's withdrawal timeline. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost public support. As security in Iraq's central provinces improves, hopes for calm in northern Iraq are shattered when coordinated suicide truck bombings decimate villages of minority Yazidis, west of Mosul. But estimates, which hover between 1,000 and 3,500 for that month, vary greatly. His plan will leave a transitional force of 35,000 to 50,000 soldiers and marines to train, equip, and advise Iraqi security forces until the end of 2011. In spite of some progress in relatively quiet provinces, more than a year after Britain's handover in Basra, the city continues to be overrun by militants and criminal gangs. Prior to the withdrawal, some U.S. military officers also expressed concerns about Iraqi security forces' dependence on U.S. troop support and political leaders' overconfidence. In October, the US threatened to close its embassy in Baghdad unless the attacks stopped. The tactic is credited by Gen. David H. Petraeus and others with helping diminish insurgent violence in the second half of 2007. Seen by many as the beginning of the end of the war, some experts express concern over the pacing, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Washington should be prepared to maintain a "modest-sized presence" after the 2011 deadline if the Iraqis request it. The SOFA, which set the June 30 deadline for withdrawal from cities, also sets a date for U.S. forces to fully withdraw from the country by 2011. The so-called Awakening begins in Anbar Province but spreads to other parts of Iraq. Another US official said the projectiles were 107 mm rockets, fired around eight kilometres (five miles) west of Arbil. In accordance with prior security agreements, President Barack Obama announces that the remaining thirty-nine thousand U.S. troops will return from Iraq by the end of 2011, marking a conclusion to the nearly nine-year war and "a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Iraq." Military forces will be succeeded by a diplomatic mission charged with overseeing U.S. interests in a country still struggling with security problems and deep-seated sectarian divisions. Iraq's parliament passed a non-binding resolution in favour of expelling foreign troops after the US assassinations. Sunni extremists destroy the gilded Shiite shrine in Samarra. May was the deadliest month of 2009, with seventeen combat-related casualties and an additional eight non-combat deaths. The primary bone of contention remains the question of legal immunity for U.S. trainers. However, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki indicates that Iraq will be open to further dialogue on the issue, including on the size of the U.S. training force, the nature of their mission, and the duration of their stay. The Pentagon steps up its recruiting efforts in response, including the signing of newly naturalized soldiers like those, pictured here, who joined the fight during a ceremony at Camp Victory in July 2007. Barack Obama, campaigning on a vow to withdraw combat troops in Iraq within sixteen months of taking office, is elected the forty-fourth president of the United States on November 4. With U.S.-assisted "Awakening Councils" making headway, insurgents target Sunnis now working with the United States. U.S. war casualties total nine hundred in 2007, making the year of the "surge" the deadliest yet for U.S. soldiers. Comparatively, as of January 15 there were roughly 2,500 US troops … He said he had spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi so that security forces based in Arbil and Baghdad could cooperate on the investigation. After more than seven years of war, 4,400 U.S. casualties, and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, the United States officially ends its combat mission in Iraq. SHARE ON Later the same month, Iraq's parliament passes a provincial elections law, clearing the way for voting in most of Iraq's provinces by January 31, 2009. President-elect Barack Obama asks incumbent Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on. The Bush administration concedes its prewar arguments about extensive stockpiles of chemical, biological, and even nuclear weaponry in Saddam Hussein's Iraq appear to have been mistaken. Ashab Ahl al-Kahf has claimed previous rocket attacks on US bases but is thought by Iraqi and Western officials to be a "smokescreen" for other groups. The attack was the first time Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq in nearly two months, after a string of such incidents. President Bush taps the U.S. commanding general in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, to lead Central Command, placing him in operational control of both the Iraq and Afghanistan efforts. ". U.S. officials call the elections a success and an important step toward withdrawing U.S. troops in the summer of 2010. Two other rockets hit residential neighbourhoods on Arbil's outskirts. Independent analyses diverge greatly. The West Point graduate takes over a tenuous security situation in Iraq amid allegations that neighboring Iran is supplying deadly roadside bombs to Shiite militants. Despite violent outbursts, 2005 is an election year for Iraq, and a sign of hope for Washington. The last U.S. soldiers leave Iraq, ending a nearly nine-year military mission. Denmark, which like the U.S. and Britain also has troops at the base, said coalition forces at Ain al-Asad were helping to bring stability and security to the country. In the courtroom, a bailiff attempts to silence Saddam as the verdict "guilty of crimes against humanity" is dispensed. In a statement, the Kurdistan region's interior ministry confirmed "several rockets" had hit the city and said security agencies had launched a "detailed investigation", urging civilians to stay home until further notice. The new Pentagon chief says he might revise the numbers upward or downward, but upward seems to be a much more likely choice, given the requirements of the military-industrial complex. In late 2020, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. troops to withdraw from the area and redeploy to Iraq. The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces to take over security duties is a major coalition goal. U.S. officials cite the acrimonious relationship between Allawi and Maliki as an obstacle to U.S. troop withdrawal and combating terrorism in the country. In the years since, there have been over 4,700 U.S. and allied troop deaths, and more than one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have been killed. "These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign," the president says. The attack was claimed online by a shadowy group calling itself "Awliyaa al-Dam," or "Guardians of Blood.". At least three rockets targeted the Arbil airport in northern Iraq, one of which hit a military complex where US-led coalition troops are based, security sources told AFP on Monday. The United Nations immediately withdraws all nonessential employees. President Bush says Saddam received “the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.” A widely circulated video capturing his abuse at the hands of his executioners, however, taints an already controversial verdict in some eyes. The attacks kill hundreds, stoking sectarian resentment. The Pentagon declines to keep such statistics. The Pentagon estimates 1,200 insurgents are killed, and the Red Cross says eight hundred Iraqi civilians die with them. Al-Qaeda in Iraq mounts a wave of suicide bombings, striking against Shiite holy sites in Baghdad and Karbala. "disaffected Sunnis will split off and resume sectarian warfare. Hundreds are killed and wounded in the deadliest strike since the beginning of the war. US News: At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi military s Under former US President Donald Trump, Washington had vowed that the killing of an American national in such a rocket attack would prompt a mass bombing campaign in Iraq, although Iraqi officials are unsure if the Biden administration would stick to the policy. AFP could not independently verify claims of that attack. British forces relinquish control of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, to Iraqi forces. Washington again carried out strikes on Kataeb positions. Following the attack, security forces deployed around the airport and helicopters could be heard on the city's edges, an AFP correspondent said. That initial effort to "decapitate" Iraq's leadership with air strikes fails, clearing the way for a ground invasion. Arbil has very rarely been targeted, although Iranian forces fired missiles at the same airport in January 2020, a few days after Washington assassinated key general Qasem Soleimani at the Baghdad airport. Acting on tips from the dictator's bodyguard and family members, U.S. troops find Saddam Hussein hiding out in a one-man hole near his boyhood home of Tikrit. In January 2004, David Kay, the former top U.S. weapons inspector, tells Congress: "We were almost all wrong." A presidential commission concludes in March 2005 "not one bit" of prewar intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction panned out. The manhunt that led to their demise had yet to find Saddam himself or many of his top aides. In December 2019, Iraq and the United States began discussing the partial withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq.In January 2020, during massive protests and following an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran, the Iraqi Council of Representatives passed a non-binding measure to "expel all foreign troops from their country," including American and Iranian troops. Gates insists his previous opposition to a withdrawal timetable was made irrelevant by the security agreement approved by parliament in November calling for a U.S. withdrawal by 2011. U.S. forces begin recruiting Sunni tribe members, many former insurgents, to take up arms against militants working with al-Qaeda in Iraq. President Bush accepts the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had become a lightning rod for criticism of the conduct of the war. Military officials say at least 10 rockets have slammed into a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq Rockets hit airbase in Iraq housing US troops BAGHDAD -- … A volley of rockets targeting an airbase in Iraq's Kurdistan region late on Monday killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and a US soldier, the US-led coalition said. In 2009, 149 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq, the lowest annual rate of U.S. military fatalities since the U.S. invasion in 2003. But there have been violations, the most recent of which had been a spray of rockets targeting the US embassy on December 20.
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