The Iraq War Timeline As Told Through Front Pages

Shock and Awe to the insurgency to the surge.

December 2002 - March 2003: The March To War

March 20, 2003: The War Begins

March 21, 2003: Troops Enter Iraq

March 22, 2003: Shock And Awe, Baghdad Burns

March 23, 2003: U.S. Troops Get Halfway To Baghdad

March 24, 2003: Five U.S. Troops Are Captured As American Forces Hit Their First Setbacks

March 26, 2003: A Sandstorm Slows U.S. Troops

April 10, 2003: Baghdad Falls

April 12, 2003: Security Deteriorates in Iraqi Cities As Americans Stand By

April 14, 2003: Captured U.S. Troops Are Freed

April 2003: Private Jessica Lynch, a POW, Is Reportedly Rescued By U.S. Troops, A Story Later Revealed To Be Wildly Exaggerated

April 2003: The Insurgency Deepens

May 1, 2003: George Bush Stands On An Aircraft Carrier And Declares And End To Major Combat Operations In Iraq

July 2003: As The War Continues, No WMDS Are Found

July 2003: U.S. Troop Deaths Continue To Rise As Public Approval Of The War Begins To Dip

October 2003: With Bush's Approval Dipping, Americans Begins To Question Why The Intelligence Was So Wrong

December 15, 2003: Saddam Is Captured

April 2004: News of U.S. Troop Abuses Of Prisoners At Abu Ghraib Prison Comes To Light

April 1, 2004: The Battle For Fallujah Begins

June 29, 2004: The Hand Over Of Power To An Interim Iraqi Government Makes Iraq A Sovereign Nation Once More

November 2004: Bush Wins Reelection With Promises To Fix Iraq

January 31, 2005: Iraqis Vote In Free Elections

February 2006: More Than 140 killed in Iraq In One Day, One Of The Deadliest Days Of The War

November 6, 2006: Saddam Sentenced To Death

November 10, 2006: Bush Suffers A Massive Defeat In The 2006 Midterm Elections, The Next Day Donald Rumsfeld Is Fired

December 30, 2006: Saddam Is Executed

March 2007: Reports Show U.S. Soldiers Face Terrible Conditions At Walter Reed Hospital

March 19, 2007: The Iraq War Four Years Later

January 11, 2007: President Bush Announces His Plan To Send 20,000 More Troops Into Iraq

March 19, 2008: Iraq, Five, Years Later

April 9, 2008: General David Petraeus Says Progress Has Been Made To Curb Violence, Asks Slow Troop Withdrawal

August 19, 2010: The Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq, About 50,000 U.S. Troops Remain In The Country.

December 16, 2011: The Iraq War Ends

December 18, 2011: The Last U.S. Troops Leave Iraq

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