The Free Iraqi Forces (FIF) is a militia made up of Iraqi expatriates, who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, under the control of...
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governments leading up to the first Iraqi parliamentary election in January 2005. U.S. military forces later remained in Iraq until the withdrawal in 2011....
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The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), also referred to as the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of...
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Aras Habib (category Iraqi Shia Muslims)
Aras Habib is an Iraqi-Feyli Kurdish businessman, politician and a colonel in the Free Iraqi Forces, the long-term director of intelligence for Ahmed Chalabi...
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coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading...
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Since the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état, the various republican governments of Iraq have used a number of different flags, all featuring the pan-Arab colors...
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The Iraqi National Congress (INC; Arabic: المؤتمر الوطني العراقي, romanized: Al-Moutammar Al-Watani Al-'Iraqi) is an Iraqi political party that was led...
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The Free Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي الحر, Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr, FIA) was an Iraqi rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces...
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post-invasion Iraqi security forces as well. The insurgents were composed of a diverse mix of private militias, pro-Saddam Ba'athists, local Iraqis opposed...
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'mothballed' in 2001, but the United States then used it to train the Free Iraqi Forces before March 2003. Then Major General David Barno said the training...
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the cities, U.S. forces operate in support of Iraqi forces, and outside the cities U.S. forces operate in partnership with Iraqi forces. Support includes...
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power to an Iraqi administration, Coalition forces in Iraq were nominally subject to Iraqi jurisdiction, and operated without any Status of Forces Agreement...
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paramilitary umbrella group that operates within Iraq. Although formally and legally part of the Iraqi Armed Forces and reporting directly to the prime minister...
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List of wars involving the United States in the 21st century (category Battles of the Iraq War involving the United States)
original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2009. "Deploying the Free Iraqi Forces – U.S. News & World Report". Usnews.com. 7 April 2003. Archived from...
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Civil war in Iraq.) This campaign has been called the Iraqi resistance by its supporters and the anti-Iraqi forces (AIF) by Coalition forces. By fall 2003...
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took the Iraqi forces by surprise: using Chinook helicopters, they landed behind Iraqi lines, silenced their artillery, and captured an Iraqi headquarters...
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Kemankar announced in an interview with the Iraqi Kurdish newspapers Hawlati and Awene that the Iranian forces attacked PJAK strongholds on July 16, however...
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kidnappings and attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops. Although it carries an Islamic title, the group combines Sunni Islamism with Iraqi nationalism, and has been labelled...
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War. After defeating the State of Kuwait on 4 August 1990, Iraq went...
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Gulf War (redirect from Iraqi wars)
transported 2,000 soldiers into Iraq where they destroyed Iraqi columns trying to flee westward and prevented the escape of Iraqi forces. The 101st Airborne Division...
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disappeared by Iraqi government forces and militias. Iraq portal Casualties of the Iraqi insurgency (2011–present) American-led intervention in Iraq Iranian-led...
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Iraqi Air Force (IQAF; Arabic: القوة الجوية العراقية, romanized: al-Qūwah al-jawwīyah al-ʻIrāqīyah) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Iraqi...
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The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Arabs and Kurds....
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14 July Revolution (redirect from Iraqi Revolution of 1958)
In July 1958, units of the Royal Iraqi Army were dispatched to Jordan in support of King Hussein. A group of Iraqi Free Officers, led by Brigadier Abd al-Karim...
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Republic of Iraq (Arabic: الجمهورية العراقية الأولى), retroactively known as First Iraqi Republic and also as, Iraqi Republic, Qasimist Iraq (1958–1963)...
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Baghdad. The Australian contingent mentors the Iraqi School of Infantry, where the Iraqi Security Forces are trained. However, Australia's contribution...
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Mahdi Army (category Paramilitary forces of Iraq)
the police, and cooperation with Sunni Iraqis and their supporters. The group was popular among Iraqi police forces. The National Independent Cadres and...
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List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State (redirect from Wars and battles involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
intervention in Iraq (2014–present) Iraqi conflict (2003–present) Iraq War Iraqi civil war (2006–2008) Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013) War in Iraq (2013–2017)...
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notably Iraq, and North Africa during World War II. At the beginning of April 1941, Iraqi politician Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, along with several more Iraqi officers...
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Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) (category Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving Iraqi Kurdistan)
Ma'rakat al-Mawṣil) was a major battle initiated by the Iraqi Government forces with allied forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIL)...
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