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Multi-National Force – Iraq

United States-led military command in Iraq from 2004 to 2009

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a U.S.-led military command during the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009.

Editorial summary

“Multi-National Force – Iraq” enters the record as united States-led military command in Iraq from 2004 to 2009. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Multi-National, Force and Iraq can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Multi-National, Force and Iraq.
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“Multi-National Force – Iraq” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Multi-National, Force and Iraq provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Multi-National Force – Iraq” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.