Source: photo by Jonas Jordan, United States Army Corps of Engineers
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A burning oil field in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm
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A Kuwaiti M-84 main battle tank crosses a trench during a capabilities demonstration at a Kuwaiti outpost during Operation Desert Shield.
 Source: photo by H. H. Deffner |
A street in Kurdish Halabja after Saddam Hussein's chemical attack there in 1988
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An American soldier arrives in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield in 1992
 Source: photo by Staff Sgt Corkran F. Lee |
An International Atomic Energy Agency inspector at a factory in Iraq during weapons inspections in 2002.
 Source: photo by Petr Pavlicek |
An Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask during the Iran-Iraq War
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An Iraqi prisoner attached to electrical shocking devices at Abu Ghraib
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician
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British troops enter Baghdad during World War I
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Current flag of the Republic of Iraq
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Donald Rumsfeld, special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, greets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on December 20, 1983
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire at the Rumaila Oilfield in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 27, 2003.
 Source: photo by Pfc. Mary Rose Xenikakis |
Gamal Abdel Nasser, second president of Egypt
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George H.W. Bush
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Iraqi expatriate Ahmad Chalabi
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, and President Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar
 Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (left), Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, and President Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar make their farewells after a ceremony celebrating the transfer of full governmental authority to the Iraqi Interim Government, June 28, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. |
Oil spouts from the ground in the Kirkurk district of Iraq in the 1930s.
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Osama bin Laden in 1997
 Source: Abdul Rahman bin Laden (son of Osama bin Laden) took the photo and released it to Hamid Mir, a Pakistani news reporter |
President George W. Bush gives the thumbs-up during his infamous "Mission Accomplished Speech" on May 1, 2003
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Pro-Nazi Iraqi prime minister Rashid Ali al-Gailani, who served three brief stints in 1933, 1940, and 1941
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Retired General Jay Garner, who attempted to organize elections in post-war Iraq
 Source: photo by R.D. Ward |
Ronald Reagan
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Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
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The Imam ‘Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq
 The Imam ‘Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq. The Mosque is third holiest site for followers of the Shi'a branch of Islam. |
The last convoy of U.S. service members enters Kuwait from Iraq, Dec. 18, 2011.
 Source: photo by Staff Sgt. Lynette Hoke |
U.S. and Kuwaiti troops close the gate between Kuwait and Iraq after the last military convoys pass through on December 18, 2011.
 Source: photo by Cpl. Jordan Johnson |
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U.S., French, Qatari, and Canadian fighter jets during Operation Desert Shield
 Source: photo by Staff Sgt Corkran F. Lee |
Woodrow Wilson
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