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There was a war that began in Iraq in 1980, but the war began with an invasion of Iran, not Iraq. That war is the Iran-Iraq War and lasted from 1980-1988.
The Iraq War began in 2003 and ended in 2011. The Insurgency in Iraq began in 2005 and continues to this day. (The difference in terminology is that the Iraq War was foreign powers fighting in Iraq to secure the country and the Insurgency is the Iraqi Government fighting in Iraq to secure the country.
Iran. The Iran-Iraq War, waged between Iran and Iraq began in 1980 and only ended in 1988.
The Iran-Iraq War began in 1980 and ended in 1988. The question was about the Gulf War which was fought two years after the Iran-Iraq War ended. The Gulf War began in August of 1990 and ended in January of 1991.
The Iran-Iraq War began in 1980 and ended in 1988.
Kuwait
The Iraq War between Iraq and the United States began on March 20th, 2003. It wasn't until December 2011 that the United States started to pull troops.
A long history of territorial disputes
The borders of Iraq reverted to antebellum borders. That is to say that Iraq's borders returned to the way they were before any war began. Iraq had the same borders in 1992 as it did 1989. (The Persian Gulf War was from 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, to 1991, when the UN Coalition evicted Iraq from Kuwait.)
The first Iraq war was one of the shortest conflicts the US was ever involved in. It began on January 17, 1991.
Iraq war
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