Pro-Nazi Iraqi prime minister Rashid Ali al-Gailani, who served three brief stints in 1933, 1940, and 1941
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Oil spouts from the ground in the Kirkurk district of Iraq in the 1930s.
Source: G. Eric and Edith Matson
An Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask during the Iran-Iraq War
Source: Sajed.ir via Wikimedia Commons
A street in Kurdish Halabja after Saddam Hussein's chemical attack there in 1988
Source: The Kurdish Project
Donald Rumsfeld, special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, greets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on December 20, 1983
Source: Iraqi state television
An International Atomic Energy Agency inspector at a factory in Iraq during weapons inspections in 2002.
A Kuwaiti M-84 main battle tank crosses a trench during a capabilities demonstration at a Kuwaiti outpost during Operation Desert Shield.
Source: H. H. Deffner
An American soldier arrives in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield in 1992
Source: Staff Sgt Corkran F. Lee
U.S., French, Qatari, and Canadian fighter jets during Operation Desert Shield
Source: Staff Sgt Corkran F. Lee
Osama bin Laden in 1997
President George W. Bush gives the thumbs-up during his infamous "Mission Accomplished Speech" on May 1, 2003
Source: CBS News
Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, and President Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar
A burning oil field in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire at the Rumaila Oilfield in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 27, 2003.
Source: Pfc. Mary Rose Xenikakis
The Imam ‘Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq
U.S. and Kuwaiti troops close the gate between Kuwait and Iraq after the last military convoys pass through on December 18, 2011.
Source: Cpl. Jordan Johnson
The last convoy of U.S. service members enters Kuwait from Iraq, Dec. 18, 2011.
Source: Staff Sgt. Lynette Hoke
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