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| 2003 invasion of Iraq | |||||||
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| Part of the Iraq War | |||||||
From left to right: Marines of the U.S. 1st Marine Regiment escort Iraqi prisoners of war; a convoy of U.S. military vehicles in a sandstorm; U.S. soldiers watch an enemy building in Baghdad burn; Iraqi civilians cheer as a statue of Saddam Hussein is toppled. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
Coalition forces: With military support from: |
 Ansar al-Islam | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
  Masoud Barzani Babakir Zebari Jalal Talabani Kosrat Rasul AliAhmed Chalabi |  Saddam Hussein Qusay Hussein Uday Hussein Abid Hamid Mahmud Ali Hassan al-Majid Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Ra'ad al-Hamdani Taha Yassin Ramadan Tariq Aziz Muqtada AlSadr | ||||||
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