2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency

2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
	Part of Iraqi insurgency and the Iraq War
	; U.S. Soldiers peer over a building top to fix in enemy targets during the First Battle of Fallujah (2004).
Date	1 May 2003 – 22 February 2006
Location	Iraq
Result	Short-term Insurgent victory Insurgency deteriorates into a full scale civil war;
Belligerents
Iraq; United States; United Kingdom; MNF–I United States ; United Kingdom ; Poland ; Italy ; Norway ;	Sunni Insurgents Al-Qaeda in Iraq; Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad; Islamic Army in Iraq; Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna; Iraqi Islamic Resistance Army; Shia insurgents Mahdi Army; Special Groups; Kata'ib Hezbollah; Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq; Badr Brigades;

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq was completed and the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled in May 2003, an Iraqi insurgency began that would last until the United States left in 2011. The 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency lasted until early 2006, when it escalated from an insurgency to a Sunni-Shia civil war, which became the most violent phase of the Iraq War.

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