Contact Admin. Here is a look back at some moments, as we mark the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the war.
Marines hold a memorial service for their fallen comrades during a day off April 13, , near Al-Kut, in eastern Iraq. Saddam Hussein's picture is taken from a video released by the U.
The manhunt for the Iraqi leader ended during a raid near his hometown of Tikrit. A young Kurdish girl stands in the refugee camp in Kirkuk on Jan. Since October , thousands of internally displaced Kurds returned to Kirkuk.
Charles Crain L , a Time magazine reporter, takes notes during a gun battle between insurgents and the combined U. Hussein and six co-defendants had been charged for their role in the mass killings of Kurdish rebels in the late s. A soldier sits on a throne in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Baghdad on Nov. Sydney stabbing accused Mert Ney faces court. Police searching for a 3yo missing girl.
Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. The planes began the "Shock and Awe" phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom with heavy bombing from the air. Fires burn in and around Saddam Hussein's riverside presidential palace compound in Baghdad after the airstrikes on March 21, Army's Abrams tanks roll deeper into Iraqi territory, south of the city of Najaf on March 23, A family flees past a destroyed Iraqi tank after a mortar attack on coalition positions by the Iraqi army in the southern city of Basra on March 28, A soldier receives mail from home in the desert near Karbala on March 29, A massive fire burns southeast of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 19, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld R puts on a bullet-proof flak jacket during his visit to Baghdad on April 30, He declared major fighting over in Iraq, calling it a victory in the ongoing war on terror as he stood beneath a banner that read "Mission Accomplished.
