1991 Saddam Hussein the president of Iraq, releases 10 prisoners of war - 6 U.S., 3 British, and 1 Italian .
1991 Sheik Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time after having fled to Saudi Arabia because of Iraq's invasion.
1991 September 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN weapons inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program, but the Iraqi officials confiscate documents from them and refuse to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. Iraq relents and allows the team to leave with the documents onlly after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
1998 The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
1999 Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and his two sons are assassinated in Najaf, Iraq. The Baathist government of Iraq is implicated in the killings.
2002 The United States State Department releases a report identifying seven state sponsors of terrorism including Syria, North Korea, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Cuba, and Sudan.
2002 U.S. President George Bush addresses the United Nations General Assembly. He urges the member nations to confront Iraq on its violations of UN Security Council resolutions.
2002 The congress of the United States passes a resolution which authorizes the President to use the United States military as he deems necessary and appropriate, against Iraq.
2002 United States President George W. Bush signs the Iraq war resolution.
2002 Iraq agrees to the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 United Nations weapons inspectors led by chief inspector Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 The Letter of the Eight is signed by leaders of eight countries including the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, demonstrating support for the United States' plans to invade Iraq.
2003 Millions of people in over 800 cities around the world protest the imminent invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition.
2003 United States President George W. Bush declares that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours, or face military action.
2003 The British House of Commons approves the use of military force by the United Kingdom against Iraq
2003 Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces during a raid in Tikrit, Iraq
2004 Newly elected Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announces that Spain will withdraw all of its 1,300 troops from Iraq.
2004 The United Nations begins an investigation into charges of corruption in its Oil for Food program in Iraq
2004 Three Japanese citizens are taken hostage in Iraq.
2004 Abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison is revealed to the public for the first time on the American new program 60 Minutes II.
2004 Former U.S. Army reservist Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty in a court-martial concerning charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
2004 George Tenet resigns from his position as CIA director after criticism over questionable intelligence on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
2004 The Coalition Provisional Authority transfers governing authority in Iraq to the Iraqi Interim Governing Council
2004 United States military forces launch a major assault on the city of Fallujah, Iraq in an effort to rid the area of insurgents prior to Iraqi elections in January.
2005 Iraq holds its first legislative elections since 1958. The elections fill 275 seats in the then newly-created Iraqi National Assembly.
2005 A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents claim responsibility.
2005 A blast from a suicide bomber near Baghdad, Iraq kills over 29 Shia Muslim worshipers. The attacks come of the eve of the Day of Ashura, the holiest day of the Shia calendar.
2005 U.S. forces in Iraq fire upon the car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena. One Italian official in the car is killed and Sgrena and one other passenger are wounded.
2005 Up to 1,000 people are killed in a stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq following an unfounded panic over possible imminent suicide bombing.
2005 U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted on six of seven counts for her involvement in abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
2005 Iraq holds a referendum on a new constitution.
2005 Saddam Hussein is put on trial for crimes against humanity by the Iraqi interim government.
2005 The first parliamentary elections since the creation of Iraq's new constitution are held.
2005 United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in a series of troop reductions in Iraq following the Iraqi elections.
