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The Iraq War or War in Iraq (and conflict in Iraq) is a colloquial reference to the overall series of different conflicts in Iraq, usually refering to one of the following:

• The war of Iraq in the Middle East, which began with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and ended with the defeat of Saddam Hussein's government and the old Iraqi army.
• The Iraqi insurgency, which is either part of the above "war" or else within the scope of sectarian violence in Iraq, which began with the post-invasion period, and continues to the present.

Other contexts

Other conflicts that may be intended include:

• The Iraqi uprising of 1920-22 against the British Mandate.
• The Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
• The Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)
• The Gulf War (1990–1991), also known as the Persian Gulf War or the First Gulf War precipitated by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Other concepts

Other concepts include:

• The Iraq War, a book about the 2003 invasion of Iraq by British historian John Keegan, released in 2004.

• Disambiguation pages