The 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was meant to topple a dictator who had inflicted reckless wars and economic misery on his fellow Iraqis, and then to usher in a thriving democracy.
* Spring 2004 - Insurgency intensifies in Falluja and elsewhere in mainly Sunni Muslim Anbar province and violence by followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr in the south. U.S. faces international condemnation after photographs emerge showing abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib jail.
* March 31, 2004 - In Fallujah four Blackwater private security contractors are killed and some of the burnt bodies hung from a bridge.* October 2004 - Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi starts waging bloody attacks designed to turn majority Shi’ite Muslims against minority Sunnis in a civil war.* Dec. 30, 2006 - Saddam Hussein hanged by masked executioners after Iraqi court sentences him to death for killings of 148 men and boys in northern Iraq in 1982.
* January 2007 - Bush announces a new war strategy including a “surge” of U.S. troops into Iraq to combat the insurgency. * October 2007 - Iraq says security guards from the U.S. firm Blackwater “deliberately killed” 17 Iraqis in a shooting in Baghdad, and plans legal steps against them. Blackwater says its guards reacted lawfully to an attack on a convoy.* July 4, 2014 - Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seizes world's attention by climbing the pulpit of Mosul’s medieval al-Nuri mosque in black clerical garb on a Friday to declare his caliphate.
*2017 - Islamic State's brutal rule, during which it killed and executed thousands in the name of a narrow interpretation of Islam, comes to an end in Mosul when Iraqi and international forces defeat the group there.* Oct. 27, 2019 - Trump announces Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a night raid by U.S. special forces in Syria.
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