U.S. President Barack Obama announces a plan to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010. He says up to 50,000 troops will remain to train Iraqi forces. (Chris Keane/Bloomberg News)
President Bush gives an address announcing that troops will be cut from 169,000 to 130,000 by July 2008. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
President Bush announces 20,000 troops will be sent to Baghdad to stem sectarian violence there.
Saddam is executed is hung before a crowd of witnesses. An image grab from a video, believed to be captured on a mobile phone and posted on the internet appears to show Saddam's head in the noo...
Iraqis head to the polls again, this time to narrowly approve a new constitution.
The Iraqi people cast their first ballots in decades, electing a transitional government. Shiites win a majority, while Sunnis largely boycott the vote. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)
Saddam Hussein is captured by US forces at a farm near his hometown of Tikrit. He surrenders peacefully. (AFP)
Saddam's two sons Uday and Qusay are killed by US forces at a villa in the northern Iraq town of Mosul. U.S. forces in Iraq partly rebuilt the faces of two bodies shown to journalists in an eff...