Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
An Iraqi insurgency began shortly after the 2003 American invasion deposed longtime leader Saddam Hussein. It is considered to have lasted until the end of the Iraq War and U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It was followed by a renewed insurgency.
Insurgents in northern Iraq, 2006
U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tanks patrol the streets of Tal Afar, Iraq in February 2005.
A roadside bombing in Iraq on 3 August 2005
An armed Iraqi interpreter on patrol with U.S. troops on the streets of Baghdad. They became frequent targets of insurgents during the war.
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, officially the Iraqi Regional Branch, is an Iraqi Ba'athist political party founded in 1951 by Fuad al-Rikabi. It was the Iraqi regional branch of the original Ba'ath Party, before changing its allegiance to the Iraqi-dominated Ba'ath movement following the 1966 split within the original party. The party was officially banned following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, but despite this it still continues to function underground.
Rikabi was one of the leading figures in early Ba'athist history
Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–1963
Qasim was executed by the Ba'athists inside the Iraqi Ministry of Defence building; the Ba'athists desecrated his corpse on Iraqi television.
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, as seen in 1974, led the Ba'athist coups of 1963 and 1968.
