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Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
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War in Iraq from 2003 to 2011
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Part of the invasion of Iraq
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President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
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Iraqi state from 1968 to 2003
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