On May 1 2003, President Bush gave a speech on the aircraft USS Abraham Lincoln declaring an "end to major combat operations" in Iraq. Yet five years later, violence continues unabated across Iraq. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid — in a special five part series — looks at the major events of the Iraq war. Each week will focus on one of the last five years looking at the events and the policies that helped shape Iraq and the current chaos in the country.

See the second half of this special here.