Date:(2003-2011)

Iraq Population: 25 Million (2003)

U.S. Troops: 1 Million+

U.S. Military Casualties: 4,488 Dead, 32,223 Wounded

Financial Cost: $1.7 trillion (through Fiscal Year 2013)

On March 19, 2003, the United States, alongside alliance powers basically from the United Kingdom, started a battle in Iraq. Soon after blasts started to shake Baghdad, Iraq's capital, U.S. President George W. Bramble declared in a broadcast address, "At this hour, American and alliance powers are in the beginning phases of military tasks to incapacitate Iraq, to free its kin and to guard the world from grave risk." President Bush and his counselors fabricated quite a bit of their case for battle on the possibility that Iraq, under despot Saddam Hussein, had or was currently assembling weapons of mass destruction.Hostilities started around an hour and a half after the U.S.- forced cutoff time for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face war passed. The principal targets, which Bush said were "of military significance," were hit with Tomahawk voyage rockets from U.S. warrior aircraft and warships positioned in the Persian Gulf. Because of the assaults, Republic of Iraq radio in Baghdad declared, "the abhorrent ones, the adversaries of God, the country and humankind, have submitted the ineptitude of animosity against our country and individuals."

However Saddam Hussein had announced toward the beginning of March 2003 that, "it is without question that the dedicated will be triumphant against hostility," he self-isolated before long the American intrusion, addressing his kin just through an intermittent audiotape. Alliance powers had the option to overturn his system and catch Iraq's significant urban areas in only three weeks, supporting not many losses. President Bush announced the finish of significant battle procedure on May 1, 2003. In spite of the loss of traditional military powers in Iraq, an insurrection has proceeded with a serious guerrilla battle in the country in the years since military triumph was declared, bringing about a great many alliance military, extremist and regular citizen passes.

After an extraordinary manhunt, U.S. warriors observed Saddam Hussein stowing away in a six-to-eight-foot opening, nine miles outside his old neighborhood of Tikrit. He didn't avoid and was unharmed during the capture. A fighter at the scene depicted him as "a man surrendered to his destiny." Hussein was captured and started preliminary action for violations against his kin, including mass killings, in October 2005.

In June 2004, the temporary government was set up since before long Saddam's oyster moved capacity to the Iraqi Interim Government. In January 2005, the Iraqi public chose a 275-part Iraqi National Assembly. Another constitution for the nation was confirmed that October. On November 6, 2006, Saddam Hussein was viewed as blameworthy of wrong doings against mankind and condemned to death by hanging. After a fruitless allure, he was executed on December 30, 2006.

No weapons of mass annihilation were found in Iraq. The U.S. pronounced a finish to the conflict in Iraq on December 15, 2011, almost ten years after the battling started.