The document provides a timeline of key events from the Iraq War from 2003 to 2010, including the initial US invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue, the ongoing search for weapons of mass destruction, attacks on US and UN targets, transfers of sovereignty to the Iraqi government, debates over troop withdrawals, and the eventual declaration of the end of combat operations in 2010. It covers political, military, and humanitarian developments over the 8 year period.

1. WAR IN IRAQ
Mashaal Zahid

2. 2003
• March 19: Bush launches invasion of Iraq
• March 30: “We know where the WMDs are”
• April 9: Saddam statue toppled
• May 1: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended
• May 29: We found the WMD
• August 7: Attack on Jordan Embassy: 11 killed in car bomb
• August 20: Attack on United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad:
16 died.
• December 14: Saddam is captured

3. 2004
• January 17: 500 soldiers died in Iraq since the invasion.
• March 5: Former U.N weapons inspector declares Iraq war illegal
• May 1: Bush declare life in Iraq is improving; since Saddam Hussein
is in jail, there has been a significant improvement in daily life.
• June 28: U.S transfers sovereignty to Iraq
• October 7: Duelfer Report: Saddam Hussein did not have WMD at
the time of the U.S invasion
• November 8: U.S forces launch an all-out attack on Fallujah; largest
U.S military operation since the invasion.

4. 2005
• January 12: WMD search is over in Iraq.
• August 31: Nearly 1,000 Shiite Muslims killed in a stampede during a
religious festival.
• September 30: Army misses recruiting target by a lot.
• October 13: Bush administration pays no attention to warnings of
post-war chaos.
• October 15: Iraqis vote to ratify draft constitution
• November 8: Evidence emerged that the United States dropped
massive quantities of white phosphorus on Fallujah, Iraq, during the
attack in November of the previous year.
• December 15: Iraqis vote to elect members of the Iraq assembly
• December 18: “[M]uch of the intelligence turned out to be wrong”
– President Bush

5. 2006
• January 6: Approximately 140 killed in Iraq.
• April: former CIA agent revealed that Bush was told before the war that
Iraq did not have WMD. Also, Powell says that Bush went into Iraq
without enough troops.
• May 20: Prime Minister Maliki oversees the formation of Iraq’s first
permanent constitutional government since the fall of Sadam Hussein.
• August 15: report of 3,438 Iraqi civilians died in July.
• September 24: New National Intelligence reveals that the Iraq war has
increased the terrorist threat.
• November 5: Saddam sentenced to death by hanging for the killing of 148
Shiites.
• November 27: NBC news decides to classify the war in Iraq as a civil war.
• December 8: 71% of Americans disapprove of how Bush is handling the
war.
• December 30: Saddam executed by hanging.

6. 2007
• January 11: 70% of Americans disapprove of Bush sending more troops into
Iraq.
• January 26: The White house has authorized the killing of any Iranians
who are working with the Iraqi’s militia.
• January 30: Army and Marine crops are short of military supplies.
• February 22: Iraqi insurgents use chlorine bombs, a new type of chemical
weapon.
• March 24: Record high percentage of Americans believe that the Iraq war
is not worth fighting anymore.
• Mach 29: Senate passes Iraq withdrawal, regardless of a threat veto from
Bush.
• April 9: Tens of thousands of Iraqis gather to protest U.S presence in Iraq.
• April 26: Senate passes withdrawal bill, which Bush vetoes in May.
• June 7: 3,500 U.S troops have been killed since the war began.
• November24: U.S starts the first major pull-out from Iraq.

7. 2008
• January 22: Study finds hundreds of Bush administration lies.
• February 25-26: Turkey attacks rebels and Iraq calls on the U.S
to intervene on the Turkish incursion.
• February 28: Sunni forces losing patience with the United
States for their insufficient U.S support and struggling Iraqi
government
• February 29: Turkey says its withdrawing its troops from Iraq
• March 2: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadeinjad visits Iraq
and hundreds of Sunnis protest his visit
• March 16: Millions of people in Iraq are still deprived of clean
water and medical care.

8. • July 2: Iraqi parliament passed provincial elections bill but
faces trouble as the presidency might not pass it.
• September 17: Syria appoints ambassador to Iraq.
• November 17: Iraq’s cabinet approves of Status of Force
Agreement; final date for American troop departure is a step
closer.
• November 27: Iraqi parliament passes agreement; the
Parliament ratified a security agreement that sets the end of
the United States role in the war and marks the beginning of
new relationships with countries.

9. 2009
• February 6: Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has won a victory in
provincial elections across Iraq.
• March 9: 12,00 U.S troops to leave Iraq; Obama announces to pull
them out by August 2010.
• March 22: Chaos feared as U.S closes a prison in southern Iraq.
• June 30: U.S withdraws its remaining combat troops from Iraqi
cities.
• October 16: Sadrists push electoral reform; an anti-American party is
speeding ahead with the electoral reform.

10. 2010
• March 17: Iraq calls on U.S help to beat refugee crisis.
• April 20: U.S military death toll in Iraq reaches 4,392
• August 31: Obama declares end to combat mission in Iraq. His
primary job goes to getting the economy back together and other
domestic issues.
• December 31: Iraq approves of new government.

11. Bibliography
• Shakir, Faiz, and Bv. "A Timeline of the Iraq War ." Think Progress.
Center for American Progress Fund , 17 Mar. 2006. Web. 24
May 2012. <http://thinkprogress.org/report/iraq-
timeline/?mobile=nc>.