Captain (CAPT) Azhar Ibraham, director of the correctional emergency response team, instructs Iraqi trainees on correctional emergency response team procedures at the Mosul Regional Confinement Facility before their graduation in Mosul, Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.