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What caused civil war in Iraq after the US invasion?
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The sudden growth of the fundamentalist Islamic state

An intervention by Russia and China

A lack of planning on the part of the US

The liberation of the Kurds by the Iranians

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A lack of planning on the part of the US

The poor post‑invasion planning (disbanding the Iraqi army, de‑Baathification, and failure to secure order or rebuild institutions) created a power vacuum that helped trigger insurgency and sectarian civil war.