The Iraq War 2003-2011
The number of casualties that took place in the U.S. war in 2007, making the year of the "surge" the deadliest yet for U.S. soldiers.
What is nine hundred casualties?
Terrorist group hijacked four commercial airlines into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
What is Al-Qaeda operatives?
The hijackers of the planes in 2001 were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Reportedly financed by what terrorist organization?
What is al-Qaeda?
On November 29, 1990, what council authorized the use of “all necessary means” of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991?
What is U.N. Security Council
In 1956, Israel, allied with Great Britain and who, then tried to take control of the Suez Canal.
What is France?
He campaigned on a vow to withdraw combat troops in Iraq within sixteen months of taking office in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1267, creating two terrorist groups.
What is al-Qaeda and Taliban?
In the wake of security fears raised by 9/11 and the mailing of letters containing anthrax that killed two and infected 17, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the Department of Homeland Security. It was signed into law by?
Who is George W. Bush?
The Persian Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War, began in 1991 after who ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990?
Who is President Saddam Hussein?
In 1948, a group of countries called the Arab League attacked Israel. The Arab League included Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and?
What is Yemen
He signed an order in 2003, disbanding the Iraqi army and intelligence services, sending hundreds of thousands of well-armed men into the streets.
Who is L. Paul Bremer III?
He was the commander of the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban coalition, and was assassinated in 2001?
Who is Ahmad Shah Massoud?
He signed a law on July 29, 2019, authorizing support for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2092.
Who is the then-President Trump?
The U.S. warplanes were accompanied by troops sent by what allies, as well as Egypt and several other Arab nations, designed to guard against a possible Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia.
What is NATO?
The war ended with an armistice in 1949. An armistice is an agreement to end fighting in a war. Under this agreement, the Gaza Strip became whose territory?
What is Egyptian?
This UN special representative and twenty-two members of his staff were killed when a suicide bomber driving an explosive-filled cement mixer destroyed the UN headquarters in Iraq.
Who is Sérgio Vieira de Mello?
The first major ground assault and the largest operation since Tora Bora, was launched against an estimated eight hundred al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Shah-i-Kot Valley south of the city of Gardez, Paktia Province.
What is Operation Anaconda?
He was the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks that remained at large until May 2, 2011, when he was finally tracked down and killed by U.S. forces at a hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In June 2011, then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
Who is Osama bin Landen?
In addition to Hussein’s incendiary speech, Iraq had begun amassing troops on Kuwait’s border. Alarmed by these actions, who in Egypt initiated negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait to avoid intervention by the United States or other powers from outside the Gulf region.
Who is President Hosni Mubarak?
Israel took control of East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. It also took control of the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and a region called the?
Golan Heights from Syria
He was killed in a U.S.-led air strike near Baquba due to his bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings, and beheadings.
Who is AQI leader Zaraqawi?
After the fall of Kabul in November 2001, the United Nations invited major Afghan factions, most prominently the Northern Alliance, a group led by who?
Who is the former king?
Almost 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The shocking events of September 11 were televised globally and left much of the world reeling in horror. The administration of President George W. Bush responded by declaring a?
What is the creation of the Department of Homeland Security?
With Iraqi resistance nearing collapse, Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, ending the Persian Gulf War. According to the peace terms that Hussein subsequently accepted, Iraq would recognize who's sovereignty and get rid of all its weapons of mass destruction
What is Kuwait?
In 1978, the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met in secret with U.S. President Jimmy Carter. After 12 days of negotiations, they reached an agreement called what?
What is Camp David Accords?