Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars Persian Gulf Wars or Gulf Wars, two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent.

The

First Persian Gulf War, Jan.–Feb.
..... Click the link for more information. .

Iraq War

or Second Persian Gulf War

Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and protracted Iraqi armed insurgency against it. The trade embargo and weapons-inspection process that the UN imposed on Iraq following the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) had partly fallen into abeyance by 2001. U.S. Pres. George W. Bush argued that the September 11 attacks on the U.S. in that same year highlighted the threat to U.S. security posed by hostile countries such as Iraq. In November 2002 the UN issued Security Council Resolution 1441 demanding that Iraq readmit weapons inspectors and comply with all previous resolutions. Although inspectors did return to Iraq, Bush and Blair declared in early 2003 (despite objections by many world leaders) that Iraq was continuing to hinder UN inspections and that it still retained proscribed weapons. On March 20 the U.S. and Britain (with smaller troop contingents from other countries) launched a series of air attacks on Iraq, and a ground invasion followed. Iraqi forces were rapidly defeated, and on April 9 U.S. forces took control of the capital, Baghdad. British forces completed their occupation of the southern city of Al-Basrah the same day, and by May 1 the major combat operations of the invasion had been completed. However, the U.S. and other occupying forces were soon embroiled in escalating guerrilla warfare in Iraq that hindered Iraq's recovery and killed thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians. The war, long opposed by many throughout the world, also became increasingly unpopular in the U.S.

Mentioned in	?		Encyclopedia browser	?		Full browser	?
No references found			second derivative second detector Second Empire Second Empire architecture Second Empire style in the United States second fiddle second fixings Second Front second generation second generation computer second generation language Second Growth second hand Second International second law of motion second law of thermodynamics second level cache Second Life second mean-value theorem second messenger Second messengers second mining second moment of area second normal form Second Period Colonial architecture Second Persian Gulf War second pilot Second Pointed style Second Promulgation of Serfdom second quadrant Second Quantization second radiation constant Second Renaissance Second Republic Second Revolution Second Serbian Uprising of 1815 Second Shepherds' Play Second Signaling System Second Sound second source second species second strike second system syndrome Second Viscosity second water second wind Second-and-a-Half International second-channel interference second-class ore Second-Class Teachers Schools second-degree burn			Second Order Intercept Point Second order lambda calculus Second Order Multiple Access Second Order Necessary Condition Second order phase transition Second order phase transition Second order phase transition Second Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Second Order Polynomial Equation Second order reaction Second Order Reliability Method Second Order Self-Organizing Map Second Order Sliding Mode Second Order Statistics Second Order Stochastical Dominance Second Order Transmission Condition Second Order Vector Sum Phase Shifter Second Pain Second Palestinian Intifada Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Second Parent Rider Second Part To Hell Second Partnership for Polio Eradication Project Second pass regression second period Second Period Colonial architecture Second Persian Gulf War second person second person second person second person second person Second Person Shooter Second Peter Second Peter second pilot Second planet Second planet Second planet Second Player Second Pointed style Second Polar Body Second Ponce de Leon second position second power second power second preferred Second Preferred Stock Second Preferred Stocks Second premolar Second premolar Second premolar Second Presbyterian Church second prescription Second Pressure Level Second Primary Education Sector Project Second Program Loader

Iraq War (redirected from Second Persian Gulf War)

Iraq War

Iraq War
(redirected from Second Persian Gulf War)