15: Iraqis choose a new parliament in the first election under the new constitution.įeb. troops kill 24 people, including 15 noncombatants, in Haditha after an insurgent attack.ĭec. 24: The Palestine and Sheraton hotels, favoured by Western journalists, are struck by multiple truck bombs. 15: Iraqis approve the new constitution in a referendum. 14: A series of bombings kills 160 people in Baghdad in a dramatic escalation of the insurgency. 31: Rumours of a suicide bomber panics Shiite marchers in a religious procession at a Baghdad bridge and nearly 10,000 people reportedly die in the stampede. 28: An Iraqi commission submits a draft constitution to parliament.Īug. troops fire on their vehicle en route to Baghdad airport.Īug. March 4: Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is freed by Italian intelligence but the rescuing agent is killed when U.S. 28: A vehicle bomb kills 127 people in Hillah in the deadliest blast to date. Shiite and Kurdish parties take an overwhelming majority after Sunnis largely boycott.įeb. 30: Iraqis select a new parliament in the first elections since the fall of Saddam. 26: A helicopter crashes in western Iraq, killing 31 Americans. 21: A bomb kills 22 people, including 18 Americans, at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul. soldiers and Marines launch the biggest attack of the war to date to seize the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.ĭec. 30: A car bomb strikes American troops handing out candy to children, killing up to 35 children. July 1: Trial of Saddam begins with the ousted leader appearing at his first hearing. The civilian head of the occupation authority, L. transfers sovereignty to the Iraqis but retains most real power. jets mistakenly bomb a wedding party in western Iraq, killing 42 people, including women and children. May 17: The head of the Iraqi Governing Council, Ezzedine Salim, is killed in suicide attack near the entrance to the Green Zone. announces an investigation into abuses against detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison as gruesome photos emerge showing Iraqi prisoners humiliated. Fighting rages until the end of August.Īpril 18: U.S. March 31: Four Blackwater security contractors are ambushed and killed in Fallujah, setting off the first battle for the insurgent-dominated city west of Baghdad.Īpril 4: Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launch attacks across southern Iraq after the U.S tries to close his newspaper. March 2: Multiple explosions rock Baghdad and Karbala at the climax of a Shiite festival, killing nearly 200 people in the deadliest attack so far. 1: Two suicide bombers attack Kurdish political offices in Irbil, killing 117 people and injuring 133. 13: Saddam is captured in an underground hideout near Tikrit.įeb. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the war, who was visiting Baghdad, escapes injury.ĭec. 26: A barrage of rockets slams into the Al-Rasheed Hotel in the Green Zone, killing an American lieutenant colonel and injuring 17 other people. announces an Iraqi administration largely made up of Iraqi exiles who opposed Saddam. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 others. Twelve days later, a truck bomb demolishes the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad, killing top U.N. 7: A car bomb strikes the Jordanian Embassy, the first such attack of the war. July 22: Saddam's sons Oday and Qusay are killed in a gunfight in Mosul.Īug. Bush declares an end to major combat operations. and allied ground troops roll into Iraq.Īpril 9: American troops storm Baghdad and the statue of Saddam is toppled in Firdous Square, the symbolic collapse of his regime. forces attack Baghdad with missiles and bombs in a failed attempt to kill Saddam Hussein. Key dates in the U.S.-led war in Iraq, which ended Sunday with the last convoy of troops leaving:
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