Nine years after invading and occupying Iraq, U.S. military forces officially left the country in December, leaving behind a mammoth embassy.

Right after the 9/11 attacks, the United States government launched two wars, creating hundreds of thousands more victims, and took away rights and freedoms of people living in the United States, too. Here, IndyKids takes a look at what has happened after, and in the name of, September 11, 2001.

It has been two years since President Barack Obama was elected. Let’s take a look at the promises he made on four key issues and what he has accomplished so far.

The world now knows about a mass killing that happened on July 12, 2007, in a place called New Baghdad, Iraq. A videotape shows U.S. soldiers shooting from a helicopter and killing at least 12 people.

The United States spends more on the war in Iraq each day than the aid the U.S. government has given to Haiti.

Iraqi journalist, Muntazar al-Zaidi, threw his shoes at Bush.

Turkish Involvement in Iraq Could Lead to More Deaths

Congress voted to give $96 billion more for the military to continue fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.S. House and Senate passed bills that would give Bush $100 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but would set a deadline for a partial withdrawal of the 150,000 troops in Iraq.

Four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush plans to send in another 21,500 more U.S. troops. A look at the status of the war in Iraq and a major protest against the war in which many kids participated.