Great Britain · Warfare / Gulf War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Start of the conflict known as the Iraq War or Operation Iraqi Freedom in which a combined force of troops from the United States, alongside the United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from Australia and Poland
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