• The past four years have been a roller-coaster for the Iraqi people. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Iraqi authorities must take concrete action towards revealing the fate and whereabouts of at least 643 men and boys who were forcibly disappeared in June 2016 by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in the context of military operations to retake Fallujah from the so-called Islamic State, Amnesty International said, marking seven years since the men and boys were abducted. (amnesty.org)
  • Nine other countries also launched airstrikes against ISIL, more or less in concert with Kurdish and Iraqi government ground troops. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was also announced that both the U.K and Germany were cutting the size of troops in Iraq as well, In addition to withdrawing some of its troops, the U.K. pledged to completely withdraw from Iraq if asked to do so by the Iraqi government and Germany "temporarily thinned out" its bases in Baghdad and Camp Taji. (wikipedia.org)
  • The coalition officially concluded its combat mission in Iraq in December 2021, but U.S. troops remain in Iraq to advise, train, and assist Iraqi security forces against the ongoing ISIL insurgency, including providing air support and military aid. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the December 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, violent insurgency of mainly Sunni Islamic Islamist fighters targeting the Iraqi government continued in what is called the Iraqi insurgency. (wikipedia.org)
  • Between 5 and 11 June 2014, Sunni Islamic, jihadist, 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) militants, already successful in the Syrian civil war, conquered the Iraqi cities of Samarra, Mosul and Tikrit, and threatened the Mosul Dam and Kirkuk, where Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga troops took control from the Iraqi government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Government of Iraq, through its Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA), may accord guardianship of an Iraqi child of the Islamic faith to a member of the child's extended family or a family friend, provided that the guardian is an Iraqi national of the Islamic faith and the child will be cared for in Iraq. (state.gov)
  • Iraqi politics are at their most fragile point in perhaps four years, and certainly their most fragile since early 2008. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • American taxpayers are spending almost $7 billion every month to maintain our presence in Iraq and Iraqi citizens are dying in attacks that come almost daily. (americanprogress.org)
  • This, combined with the failure to use the oil money to re-build the country, and the inadequacy of the Iraqi forces have led to the alienation of the Sunni community and the inability of the Iraqi army to repulse the attack on Mosul and the earlier loss of Fallujah. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Guardian reports that Iraqi government officials in Mosul 'say the city is now effectively in the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group inspired by al-Qaida that has remained in control of parts of Falluja and Ramadi for the past six months. (commondreams.org)
  • Iraqi representatives at a US-brokered meeting to start shaping a future government of the country have agreed to work for a democratic, federal Iraq - but it is not yet known what roles the country's various people groups will play. (bbc.co.uk)
  • They were just one family among the tens of thousands of Iraqi Arabs, mostly Shiites, who fled Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's brutal crackdown on southern Iraq's rebellions in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War. (unhcr.org)
  • In May 1941, Iraqi fascists backed by popular support tried to overthrow the pro-Western monarchy and seize British oil fields in Iraq to facilitate the oil-dependent German advance east to Russia. (tikkun.org)
  • BAGHDAD: In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, surrounded by buildings that were reduced to rubble years ago, the ruins of the Al-Nouri Mosque are starting to come to life again. (arabnews.com)
  • According to Jaafar Jotheri, a geo-archaeologist at the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq, there have been five waves of destruction in recent Iraqi history. (arabnews.com)
  • Around 4,000 militants and terrorists have escaped detention with inside help since 2006, the UAE-based newspaper, The National, reported figures compiled by Iraqi Reconciliation Society (IRS), an independent organization the monitors the country' jails. (captainsjournal.com)
  • The three men sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on Sunday were among 13 French citizens members of the Islamic State who were handed over to Iraq in January by the US-backed SDF. (debka.com)
  • A similarly full withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq is planned to be completed by the end of the year, according to recent agreements between the Iraqi and U.S. governments. (csis.org)
  • Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division formally took the lead of the international ground forces helping Iraqi troops defeat ISIS in the country. (americanmilitarynews.com)
  • The ceremony took place 15 years to the day of when American forces first entered the country to take on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, after President George W. Bush and his cabinet built the case that the country was developing weapons of mass destruction. (americanmilitarynews.com)
  • The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the start of the Second Gulf War induced a stream of various countermeasures against Iraq, one of the principal being different forms of economic sanctions. (lu.se)
  • Canada later joined in with the coalition withdrawal as well by transferring some of its troops stationed in Iraq to Kuwait. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2011, the U.S. had withdrawn most of its troops from Iraq and later kept 20,000 employees in its embassy and consulates, including dozens of U.S. Marine Embassy Guards and approximately 4,500 private military contractors. (wikipedia.org)
  • The war aimed to transform Iraq to a friendly base for U.S. troops capable to act, if needed, against Iran - but instead it gave Iran a new ally in Baghdad. (indepthnews.net)
  • Blix records, for instance, that "during a telephone chat with Tony Blair on February 20, I told the British prime minister that it would be paradoxical and absurd if a quarter of a million troops were to invade Iraq and find very little in the way of weapons. (indepthnews.net)
  • With U.S. combat troops out, the country remains fragile. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Two years after U.S. troops invaded Iraq and achieved a swift military victory, our armed forces and the people of Iraq are facing a dangerous and unstable situation. (americanprogress.org)
  • The President's approval rating currently stands at 36 percent, and 57 percent of Americans said it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq. (csun.edu)
  • In response to his military's defeat in the nation's second largest city, Iraq President Nuri al-Maliki declared the national emergency as his government was seen scrambling to respond to the escalating internal violence that has gripped the country since the last U.S troops left the country in late 2011. (commondreams.org)
  • At home, the President has announced that troops will be deployed in Iraq past the end of his presidency in 2008, shrugging his shoulders at the problem of what to do with Iraq. (georgetownvoice.com)
  • The Bush administration has been anxious about the staying power of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq after five countries have withdrawn their troops in recent months, reducing to 31 the number still on the list. (foxnews.com)
  • He indicated he wants Hungary to keep its 354 troops in Iraq beyond a planned Dec. 31 withdrawal. (foxnews.com)
  • He acknowledged, however, that some countries are not committed to keep their troops in Iraq beyond this year. (foxnews.com)
  • FIEL - A fisherman walks across a dry patch of land in the marshes in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2022. (kdvr.com)
  • In February 2022, Kehlenbrink and colleagues published findings from a survey of 83 humanitarian crises areas in 27 countries in 2018 conducted by a consortium including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. (medscape.com)
  • After the invasion, the previous incarnations of ISIL (Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad [Jama'at], the Mujahideen Shura Council [MSC], and al-Qaeda in Iraq) interfered with occupation by the U.S.-led coalition. (wikipedia.org)
  • The war aimed to eliminate al Qaeda in Iraq, but the terrorist group didn't exist in the country until after the invasion. (indepthnews.net)
  • Most of the brutal slayings are attributed to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which remains distressingly effective despite losing three-fourths of its top leadership over the past year. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • At first, the extremist group Jabhat Al Nusra seemed predominant, but then it was superseded by ISIS/ISIL entering the fray from Iraq where this organization had previously been known as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (killed by the Americans in 2006). (rt.com)
  • In 2018, a year after the expulsion of Daesh from the city, the UAE vowed to contribute $50.4 million to fund Mosul's restoration, a sum that UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay deemed "the largest and (most) unprecedented cooperation to rebuild cultural heritage in Iraq ever. (arabnews.com)
  • The United Nations estimated in August 2020 that over 10,000 ISIL fighters remained in Iraq and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • The coalition of 5 September (10 countries) decided to support anti-ISIL forces in Iraq and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.S. citizens should not travel through Iraq to engage in armed conflict in Syria, where they would face extreme personal risks (kidnapping, injury, or death) and legal risks (arrest, fines, and expulsion). (state.gov)
  • The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has stated that it will impose prison sentences of up to ten years on individuals who illegally cross the Iraq-Syria border. (state.gov)
  • In doing so, we should listen to and work closely with our allies across the region, whose understanding of these issues is crucial and who are prepared to work with us in fighting the root causes of this extremism which goes far beyond the crisis in Iraq or Syria. (independent.co.uk)
  • One result of that invasion and the subsequent occupation, as well as of the wars and civil wars that followed: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis , Syrians , and Lebanese, while major areas of Syria and some parts of Iraq have fallen into the hands of armed supporters of al-Qaeda or, in one major case, a group that didn't find that organization extreme enough . (commondreams.org)
  • The three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn't have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a new study on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (kdvr.com)
  • A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn't have happened without human-caused climate change, a new study found. (kdvr.com)
  • With every degree of warming Syria, Iraq and Iran will become even harder places to live. (kdvr.com)
  • In addition to making near-normal water conditions into an extreme drought, study authors calculated that the drought conditions in Syria and Iraq are 25 times more likely because of climate change, and in Iran, 16 times more likely. (kdvr.com)
  • In July 2014, Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi stood at the mosque's pulpit and declared Iraq and Syria as the terrorist group's "caliphate. (arabnews.com)
  • In Syria, Assad's forces appear to have regained the upper hand, a fact which probably convinced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that returning to Iraq was but a viable option. (rt.com)
  • Christmas comes "at a time when the world is suffering" from "increasingly serious" crises such as the "deadly war" between Ukraine and Russia, as well as "divisions, conflicts and injustices" in many parts of the world, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen. (asianews.it)
  • East (Iraq and Syria). (cdc.gov)
  • She is specifically interested in the Middle East and has been doing research primarily on Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Syria. (lu.se)
  • Attacks using improvised explosive devices, indirect fire, and unmanned aerial vehicles occur in many areas of the country, including Baghdad and other major cities. (state.gov)
  • Due to risks to civil aviation operating in the Baghdad Flight Information Region, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended for an additional two years its Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) prohibiting certain flights at altitudes below 32,000 feet. (state.gov)
  • They are predominantly in south-east Iraq, around the city of Basra, but also make up a sizeable minority of the population of Baghdad. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Most of the escapes occurred in Baghdad, the capital that is considered to be the instable and unsecure part in the country, IRS records show. (captainsjournal.com)
  • Iraq was hammered by a series of such storms in April, grounding flights in Baghdad, Najaf and Arbil and leaving dozens hospitalised. (abc.net.au)
  • In an apparent bid to intimidate those critical of Maliki, and his government's crushing of Iraq's Arab Spring-style protests last year, radio commentator and critic Hadi al-Mehdi was gunned down in Baghdad in September. (minnpost.com)
  • This cross-sectional study was conducted tion, or usually a combination of both, are in primary schools in Baghdad (the capital major factors affecting physical growth and of Iraq) during the 2nd semester of the aca- mental development [ 1,2 ]. (who.int)
  • The entire nation of Iraq is under a declared state of emergency on Tuesday after a military assault by Sunni insurgents overpowered government soldiers in the northern city of Mosul. (commondreams.org)
  • This media coalition continues to portray Sunni Arab terrorism in Iraq as 'insurgents' and 'freedom fighters. (strategypage.com)
  • Powell believes that meeting terrorist demands only encourages more kidnappings or other violence against foreigners by insurgents in Iraq. (foxnews.com)
  • Do not travel to Iraq due to terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, civil unrest, and Mission Iraq's limited capacity to provide support to U.S. citizens. (state.gov)
  • Iraq's history of invading Kuwait is matched by the history of other countries, among them the United States, which has invaded Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada and Panama. (progressive.org)
  • Three years later, Daesh destroyed the mosque's beloved minaret, an act that Iraq's prime minister at the time called "an official acknowledgement of defeat. (arabnews.com)
  • A co-founder of Nature Iraq and leading environmental expert, Al-Asadi is a vocal defender of Iraq's southern marshlands and the Marsh Arab tribes who lived in them for generations. (truthout.org)
  • Kareem Waheed, Iraq's electricity minister, resigned Monday after a weekend of violent demonstrations in southern Iraq. (latimes.com)
  • A series of coordinated car bombs in Iraq targeted Shiite pilgrims today, killing at least 72 people in violence that recalled the worst years of Iraq's insurgency and sectarian civil war, which peaked in 2006-07. (minnpost.com)
  • The Iran-Iraq War, which began in 1980, lasted nearly eight years taking a heavy toll on Iraq's economy. (worldinfozone.com)
  • In 2003, the United States led a controversial invasion of Iraq, which was based on flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaeda while under Ba'athist rule. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not so in contemporary Iraq, where the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of that country fell on March 19, 2013. (indepthnews.net)
  • So has corruption, as near-anarchy continues to dominate post-invasion Iraq. (indepthnews.net)
  • Many influential supporters of the US invasion of Iraq remain hawkish, nevertheless. (indepthnews.net)
  • Moreover, some remain faithful to the dubious proposition that the invasion was justified because at the time it was launched, intelligence agencies all over the world were convinced that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. (indepthnews.net)
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and development funding have poured into Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Three years after the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, debate over the war continues at CSUN. (csun.edu)
  • D-pak said she questions the motives of the U.S. invasion and the government's handling of the Iraq war. (csun.edu)
  • It's clear that the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 unleashed a brutal, bloody, Sunni-Shiite civil war across the region. (commondreams.org)
  • Tom Engelhardt, editor of the TomDispatch website, published an extensive, and particularly relevant, essay early on Tuesday in which he laid out the case for why the failure of U.S. foreign policy--specifically the unprovoked invasion of Iraq in 2003--deserves the bulk of the blame for the sectarian violence and political volatility that has now engulfed the country. (commondreams.org)
  • Engelhardt was not alone in placing the blame for the current state of Iraq on the 2003 U.S. invasion. (commondreams.org)
  • Ever since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the territorial and political integrity of the country has been compromised. (rt.com)
  • At the time of the invasion, many critical voices were heard declaring that the US intervention would spell the end of Iraq and the beginning of sectarian violence leading to a veritable civil war. (rt.com)
  • By one count, more than 340 journalists have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003, and Iraq remains one of the most dangerous nations on earth to be a journalist, according to Freedom House. (minnpost.com)
  • The middle of the seventh century saw the Arab invasion of Iraq and the introduction of Islam. (worldinfozone.com)
  • A US-led invasion of Iraq took place in 2003. (worldinfozone.com)
  • Update: Amnesty International received a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq on 8 June 2023. (amnesty.org)
  • Revive the Spirit of Mosul" will focus on documenting and clearing the site, drawing up plans for its reconstruction, and finally, four years of restoration and faithful reconstruction of the Al-Nouri Mosque minaret and adjacent buildings. (arabnews.com)
  • True, Iraq may possess or may be developing "weapons of mass destruction. (progressive.org)
  • And what country has by far the largest store of weapons of mass destruction in the world and has used them with deadly consequences in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Southeast Asia? (progressive.org)
  • It is not worth rehashing the administration's reasons for bringing our country to war, except to note that three years later they are all debunked: no connection with Al Quaeda, no weapons of mass destruction and no friend in the Middle East. (georgetownvoice.com)
  • In doing so, we must rely on the will of the majority of Iraqis who have benefited from liberation and have a sense of ownership of the new Iraq. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • As we Iraqis are trying to rebuild our country, an unholy alliance of international terrorists, Baathists, and fundamentalists are aiming to divide Iraq and send it back to the dark ages. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Shoog said several Iraqis are grateful for what the United States did, but the Americans cannot stay in the country long, because it is so dangerous. (csun.edu)
  • Robert Chianese, CSUN English professor and member of Citizens for Peaceful Resolution, said he finds it hard to believe that a civil war will not happen in Iraq when different groups of Iraqis attack each other. (csun.edu)
  • The amnesty would not include major baddies like Saddam, but would cover many of those who have been killing Americans and Iraqis for the last two years. (strategypage.com)
  • The purpose of this witness in Washington, D.C. on January 15th is to draw attention to the fact that the United States has been using military force for 20 years that has led to the slaughter of Iraqis and the destruction of their country. (ivaw.org)
  • The lands that are now united in the state of Iraq do not harbor a homogeneous population, the majority of Iraqis are Shi'ites (around 65%), with a sizeable Sunni minority (around 32%) and all but negligible and ever-dwindling Christian remnants (around 3%), in addition to various ethnic sub-groups as well (such as the Assyrians and the Turcoman groups). (rt.com)
  • After years of occupation, civil war and the fight against the insurgent ISIS, successive U.S.-backed governments of Iraq have been unable to meet the basic needs of citizens, particularly the poor, some of whom have resorted to camping in overfilled dumps to make a meager living sorting waste. (truthout.org)
  • The recent advance made by ISIS/ISIL has turned this predominantly Shi'ite country into the second battleground of a kind of Islamic Cold War . (rt.com)
  • The second was on the security level, as Macron reiterated France's commitment to the fight against ISIS in Iraq. (csis.org)
  • Analysts are expressing grave concerns about a strong return of ISIS in Iraq, mirroring that of the Taliban's in Afghanistan. (csis.org)
  • Moreover, there are many internal conflicts taking place in the country, involving government forces, the so-called Islamic State, as well as Iranian-backed militias. (euronews.com)
  • On 15 June 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched in response to the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) of the Islamic State (IS) as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. (wikipedia.org)
  • And the offensive against the so-called Islamic State has plunged the country into seemingly permanent turmoil with an increase in the number of displaced people. (africanews.com)
  • The Islamic State terrorists overran a large part of the country three years ago. (debka.com)
  • Originally, Zarqawi's goal had been to establish a "Caliphate" in Iraq, and in its new guise, his successor Baghdadi employs his armed groups to establish an "Islamic state" (which on a semantic level is basically synonymous with the term caliphate) in the lands of Mesopotamia and the Levant. (rt.com)
  • 500 partners (including endemic countries and various organizations and institutions). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Although sustained programmatic enhancements, including improving the polio-endemic countries met both indicators, review of the quality of supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) epidemiologic, environmental, and other virologic evidence to interrupt transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to revealed important surveillance gaps in all three countries ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • endemic countries to date in 2015, compared with nine cases in five previously polio-free countries reported during the Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs) same period in 2014 (Table 2). (cdc.gov)
  • Now the marshlands are disappearing once again under the compounding pressures of heat waves and drought fueled by climate change, and fierce competition for water between Iraq and its powerful upstream neighbors in Turkey and Iran. (truthout.org)
  • During 2012-2020, self-reported current tobacco use remained unchanged between survey waves in more than 60% of the countries that implemented the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, while e-cigarette use increased in most of the countries with comparison data. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from 2010-2020 indicate the average global prevalence of current use of any tobacco product among youth aged 13 to 15 years was 10.3%, with smokeless tobacco use at 2.6% and cigarette smoking at 6.0% (4). (cdc.gov)
  • French President Emmanuel Macron visited Iraq twice in the span of one year from 2020-2021. (csis.org)
  • They know that their country is no longer the property of the bloodthirsty authority of Saddam Hussein. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Are the lives of our young people to be expended in the dubious expectation that the demise of Saddam Hussein will bring democracy to Iraq? (progressive.org)
  • For two CSUN students from Kuwait, who call themselves "Shoog" and "D-pak," deposing Saddam Hussein was necessary for the benefit of the people of Iraq. (csun.edu)
  • Saddam would never have left (his country). (csun.edu)
  • A lot of people in Iraq today look at that stability that the regime of Saddam Hussein produced with nostalgia in comparison to the chaos that they are facing today. (africanews.com)
  • Indeed, since the removal of Saddam, and despite the bloodshed, Iraq had contained its own instability mostly within its own borders. (independent.co.uk)
  • As for how these events reflect on the original decision to remove Saddam, if we want to have this debate, we have to do something that is rarely done: put the counterfactual ie suppose in 2003, Saddam had been left running Iraq. (independent.co.uk)
  • The group is led by Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, whose followers have waged a low-level war of ambushes, sabotage, and assassinations against Saddam Hussein's regime for 20 years. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Now that Saddam is gone, Roghay and Ashraf's families want to go back to their country. (unhcr.org)
  • But he says that with Saddam gone, it is now time to go back and help rebuild Iraq. (unhcr.org)
  • Of course, that's what Saddam did to Iraq in three decades of misrule. (strategypage.com)
  • Saddam Hussein took over from Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr as President of Iraq in 1979. (worldinfozone.com)
  • He applied for asylum in 1990 as the residence permit for his studies did not protect him from being returned to Iraq against his will at some point. (unhcr.org)
  • In August 1990 Iraq occupied Kuwait and failed to follow a UN demand to leave the country. (worldinfozone.com)
  • The case of international sanctions enacted against Iraq between the years 1990 and 2003 will be the focal point of this analysis where the difficulties of implementing sanctions against an autocrat will be highlighted. (lu.se)
  • Iraq 1952-1990 and U.S. Regional Interest. (lu.se)
  • Most Americans were in favor of going to war with Iraq, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll taken the day the war began. (csun.edu)
  • There has been little or no sacrifice, financial or otherwise, asked of a majority of Americans, despite the apocalyptic rhetoric our President feeds the country daily. (georgetownvoice.com)
  • A study released Monday by Pew Research said that about 48 percent of Americans said the decision to use military force in the country was wrong, while about 43 percent said it was the right decision. (americanmilitarynews.com)
  • But for every step forward there have been two steps back: U.S. troop presence in Iraq is at an all-time high, and the Army and Marines are stretched as never before. (americanprogress.org)
  • After many years of fighting opposition forces, troop surges, inter-communal violence, and financial support given to Sunni tribal militias, known as Sahwa, to fight Sunni terrorist employing the name Al-Qaeda, the state of Iraq re-emerged again on the international scene. (rt.com)
  • The coalition news release said the transfer of authority between the two divisions was "another step forward in reducing U.S. troop levels in accordance with the request of the Government of Iraq. (americanmilitarynews.com)
  • He said the 30 non-U.S. members of the coalition have pledged to meet their troop commitments to Iraq. (foxnews.com)
  • All these factors combined make the country vulnerable to civil unrest. (euronews.com)
  • A decade on is Iraq still vulnerable? (africanews.com)
  • Iraq is particularly vulnerable to climate change, having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years. (abc.net.au)
  • Twenty years after a United States-led coalition invaded and occupied Iraq, the country is facing cascading environmental crises and was recently declared the fifth-most vulnerable country to climate disruption. (truthout.org)
  • Throughout the region, we work with local partners to directly improve the lives of tens of thousands of vulnerable people each year through initiatives in sustainable agriculture, microenterprise development, women's empowerment, civic education, and peacebuilding. (unhcr.org)
  • Demonstrations, protests, and strikes occur frequently throughout the country. (state.gov)
  • Iraq was rocked by increasingly violent protests for a seventh day on Sunday as citizens of the oil-rich southern province of Basra took to the streets denouncing corruption and demanding water, electricity and jobs. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • These protests occur during a time of political transition, as the country awaits the final results of a recount of May's national election. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The decline and implosion of the Ottoman Empire, the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and the Gulf War in the early 1990s, followed by UN and international sanctions on Iraq until 2003, constitute the first three phases of destruction. (arabnews.com)
  • The Ottoman Empire took control in the region in 1534 and assumed direct rule of Iraq from 1831 until the First World War (1914-1918). (worldinfozone.com)
  • Waheed weathered four years in his post, picked by the country's then-unified Shiite political coalition for his job in 2006. (latimes.com)
  • There were additional attacks against police in Kut during the tragic Aug. 25 coordinated deadly attacks across the country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The good people of Iraq are trying desperately to transform their country from one ruled by fear, repression, and tyranny into a democracy that upholds the values of equality, tolerance, human rights, and the rule of law. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The war aimed to make Iraq a model democracy based on law, but it replaced tyranny with anarchy and led America to practices that violated the laws of war. (indepthnews.net)
  • It doesn't mean that Iraq is destined to be a failed democracy," explained Loretta Napoleoni. (africanews.com)
  • Instead of sowing human rights and democracy in Iraq, as was promised by Bush administration officials and their supporters leading up to and during the war, the country is now, according to Engelhardt, 'a riven, embattled , dilapidated country' wracked by violence. (commondreams.org)
  • In a democracy, those Shia Arabs should be running the country. (strategypage.com)
  • Fifteen years after the change of order in Iraq, it's the same problem. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • That one lasted for fifteen years (1975-90) and killed over five percent of the population. (strategypage.com)
  • Fifteen years after he arrived in Greece, he is now a Greek citizen and owner of a paediatrics clinic on Ios island, part of the Cycladic islands situated between Greece and Turkey. (unhcr.org)
  • ️ Are there any special offers for flights from Afghanistan to Iraq at eSky.co.ke? (co.ke)
  • ️ When booking flights from Afghanistan to Iraq can I take care of the insurance? (co.ke)
  • ️ If I book flights from Afghanistan to Iraq, can I also book accommodation on the spot? (co.ke)
  • ️ Which airlines offer flights from Afghanistan to Iraq? (co.ke)
  • At eSky.co.ke we make sure that the offer for flights from Afghanistan to Iraq include not only low-cost airlines, but also those specializing in high standard. (co.ke)
  • BUDAPEST, Hungary - Secretary of State Colin Powell ( search ) said Tuesday that countries helping postwar Iraq and Afghanistan must remain steadfast in their commitments to avoid the possibility of a return to despotic rule in the two nations. (foxnews.com)
  • During a morning interview on the "Napkelte" television show, Powell acknowledged the challenge of building democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan ( search ), which have known only despotism. (foxnews.com)
  • He linked Hungary's own struggle for independence and freedom from Soviet influence to what he saw as a similar effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. (foxnews.com)
  • It won't take that long for the hope and the hearts of the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq to be vindicated because the forces of freedom in the world are now stronger than ever. (foxnews.com)
  • While the NATO-led deployment in Afghanistan has been going up, the number of non-U.S. forces in Iraq has been going down. (foxnews.com)
  • One bil- in all but three countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan). (cdc.gov)
  • Iraq had a higher rate of violent gun deaths per capita than the United States and the highest in the Middle East and North Africa in 2019, according to the University of Washington . (euronews.com)
  • The Badr Brigades crossed the border into southern Iraq and Shia strongholds, including the holy city of Najaf on the Euphrates, rose in revolt. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Facebook users in Iraq are exploiting the platform's lack of Arabic and Kurdish-language moderation policies in order to purchase guns online, according to a report. (euronews.com)
  • The lack of moderation in Arabic and Kurdish has created an open gun market on Facebook in Iraq, said Moustafa Ayad, the ISD Executive Director for Africa, Middle East & Asia. (euronews.com)
  • it used chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels 15 years ago. (progressive.org)
  • That Iraq has cruelly attacked its Kurdish minority can hardly be a justification for war. (progressive.org)
  • This minority, which constitutes barely 20% of the population, has wielded power over the Shia Arab majority and the Kurdish minority since Iraq was created by the British in 1921. (bbc.co.uk)
  • More recently, when the governing Baath Party came to power in 1968, it was controlled by Sunni Arab clans from provinces in north-western Iraq. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The Sunni Arab nightmare is that a Shia run Iraq would ally with Shia Iran to take over the Middle East. (strategypage.com)
  • Sunni Arabs in the Middle East may not support Sunni Arab terrorism in Iraq, but they do support Sunni Arab control of Iraq. (strategypage.com)
  • The American overthrow of Sunni Arab control of Iraq was condemned by most of the world's media. (strategypage.com)
  • So it was something of a knee-jerk reaction for the European press to join with the Sunni Arab press to condemn the United States for removing Sunni Arabs from control of Iraq. (strategypage.com)
  • But a major effort to suppress current Sunni Arab violence in Iraq could leave over 100,000 Sunni Arabs dead, and several million in exile. (strategypage.com)
  • Anti-U.S. militias threaten U.S. citizens and international companies throughout Iraq. (state.gov)
  • As the Iraq Army retreated, reports indicate that the anti-government militias have seized military bases and prisons in the city, releasing more than a thousand prisoners who were held. (commondreams.org)
  • Previous fighting between Sunni militias and the Iraq Army in Fallujah and other areas closer to the Syrian border have exposed the deep tensions and bloody rivalries that remain in the aftermath of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began in 2003. (commondreams.org)
  • Portugal is due to ask Iraq to lift the diplomatic immunity of the twin sons of the country's ambassador to Portugal who are involved in the brutal beating of 15-year-old Portuguese teen Rúben Cavaco on August 18 in Ponte de Sôr, Alentejo. (portugalresident.com)
  • After the War Britain administered the country under a League of Nations mandate, developing the country's oil industry in the 1920s. (worldinfozone.com)
  • The Iranian-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution (Sciri) in Iraq is the strongest political group and claims to represent much of the Shia population. (bbc.co.uk)
  • third-party source needed] In early August 2014, ISIL began its Northern Iraq offensive. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the defeat of Daesh in Iraq, the country has entered a period of fragile calm following years of war and destruction. (arabnews.com)
  • We are working to build independent commissions that regulate political and economic life, a new concept for the people of Iraq. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Jama'at and MSC started a campaign of terrorism in response to what resistance commander Abu Mohammed described as an occupation intending to humiliate and enchain the people of Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • He said the support he received from individual people gave him strength and courage to survive the tough years. (unhcr.org)
  • Today, people in southern Iraq still rely on the two famed rivers - and the marshy waterways they feed - for transportation and agriculture, but the water is increasingly polluted and drying up. (truthout.org)
  • Our work is based on a conviction that, to play an active role in _the development of their communities and countries, people need opportunities _and tools: the knowledge to participate in civic and economic life, a voice_ in public decisions that affect their wellbeing, and a means of making _a meaningful living. (unhcr.org)
  • These are the wrong people to lead the country. (minnpost.com)
  • The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. (bvsalud.org)
  • It has been seven years since then-Prime Minister Haidar Abadi formed a committee to investigate those disappearances and other abuses committed by the PMU during the Fallujah operations. (amnesty.org)
  • This study aimed to determine the prevalence of dental caries and its risk factors among children aged 11 to 12 years in Nyarugenge District in Kigali, Rwanda. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dental caries is a public health concern associated with poor oral hygiene, deep pit, and fissures among children aged 11 to 12 years old. (bvsalud.org)
  • The ceasefire did not take place until nearly eight years later. (worldinfozone.com)
  • Public holidays include New Year's Day, Army Day (6 January) , Republic Day (17 July) and Ceasefire Day - the End of Iran-Iraq War (8 August). (worldinfozone.com)
  • In November, the World Bank warned that Iraq could suffer a 20 per cent drop in water resources by 2050 due to climate change. (abc.net.au)
  • As longtime researcher of the social costs of climate change and a former environmental program director at the UN, Lonergan has traveled to Iraq frequently since the mid-2000s to study and revive the marshlands. (truthout.org)
  • On a global level, there is much inequity, with low-income countries, which produce the least greenhouse gases (GHGs), being more adversely affected by climate change than high-income countries, which produce substantially higher amounts of GHGs yet are less immediately affected. (bvsalud.org)
  • In Basra, the extreme south of the country, a parliamentary committee was set up to examine the escape of 12 Al Qaeda figures, some facing death sentences, from an interrogation center in the southern province on January 12. (captainsjournal.com)
  • Anis Tarabey Country Director and Regional Advisor, Jordan-Lebanon Tel: +962 6 461 7441 Email: [email protected] For 100 years, the Near East Foundation has pioneered innovative solutions to social and economic development challenges impacting communities throughout the Middle East and Africa. (unhcr.org)
  • WHO) from 10 countries of Africa, late in Australia. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1975, at the age of five, he and his family fled Iraq for Iran, where they spent many turbulent years as refugees. (unhcr.org)
  • Millions more have become internally displaced or refugees in other countries. (ivaw.org)
  • In early April, Environment Ministry official Issa al-Fayad warned that Iraq could face '272 days of dust' a year in coming decades, according to the state news agency INA. (abc.net.au)
  • About 78% of those refugee situations are protracted, sometimes lasting years or even decades. (medscape.com)
  • And news of a car bomb that kills a person makes for more compelling television than the construction of a university in a stable region of the country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • NEW YORK (AP) - The physical pain of nearly dying when shrapnel from a roadside bomb in Iraq tore through his head 17 years ago was hard enough for ABC newsman Bob Woodruff. (ksnt.com)
  • January 15, 2011 marks the 20th year since the United States began to bomb Iraq. (ivaw.org)
  • Long known as the cradle of civilization, Iraq is home to over 10,000 cultural heritage sites, ranging from the 5,500-year-old cities of Sumer (where evidence of the earliest writings in the world are preserved) to archaeological remains of the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Parthian and Abbasid cultures. (arabnews.com)
  • UNMOVIC, which had deployed inspectors on the ground in Iraq, was not convinced. (indepthnews.net)
  • It will be their first meeting since the United States handed over sovereignty to Iraq a month ago. (foxnews.com)
  • strong predictor of postnatal growth and All approvals from the Ministry of Edu- final height is determined in large part by cation were prepared and a timetable was nutrition from conception to age 2 years. (who.int)
  • The news coming out of Iraq is not promising. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But you cannot understand the situation of the new Iraq simply by following the news. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This image released by ABC News Studios shows Bob Woodruff, right, in the marketplace in Sabaa Al Bour, Iraq. (ksnt.com)
  • He had just been named co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" and was sent to Iraq at the height of the war there to report on its progress. (ksnt.com)
  • Similarly, at the beginning of the Iraq War, news which published on American media products such as newspaper or magazines are mostly about America's standpoint in this war. (educationindex.com)
  • The local shopkeeper says that in the past few weeks, the talk here has been about nothing but the news from Iraq, and the hope that soon it will be possible to go back. (unhcr.org)
  • These periods, especially the Abbasid, which placed great efforts into safeguarding and developing old knowledge from preceding cultures and empires, have shaped our world today," Lanah Haddad, regional director for Tarii, the Academic Research Institute in Iraq, told Arab News. (arabnews.com)
  • News from Iraq is available in Newslink . (worldinfozone.com)
  • He said the United States has created a terrible situation in Iraq and are responsible for much of the unrest there and need to stay until the situation is resolved. (csun.edu)
  • Low- and middle-income countries might consider adopting, implementing, and enforcing comprehensive tobacco control policies, such as those outlined in the World Health Organization MPOWER package, to reduce the availability and accessibility of tobacco products among youth. (cdc.gov)
  • The Washington Post comments that "haunted by the ghosts of its brutal past, Iraq is teetering between progress and chaos, a country threatened by local and regional conflicts that could drag it back into the sustained bloodshed its citizens know so well. (indepthnews.net)
  • We cannot allow conditions to be set that will allow such a brutal force to rise and in such numbers that they could actually threaten the takeover of a country and invade and destroy and hold terrain, that can't happen," Gen. Piatt said. (americanmilitarynews.com)
  • But the Iranian tradition that terrifies Sunni Arabs the most is the fact that for over three thousand years, Iran has dominated the region. (strategypage.com)
  • The epic "Gilgamesh" is a poem from Mesopotamia dating back more than four thousand years. (worldinfozone.com)
  • Many left to join relatives in the West after the first Gulf War and the imposition of economic sanctions against Iraq. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The fact that Iraq is a tyranny would certainly not, in itself, constitute grounds for pre-emptive war. (progressive.org)
  • Josh Hunt, an Army National Guard member who recently returned from a year in Iraq, takes down a yellow ribbon put up in his honor at the Elmwood church, Lafayette, Ind. (christianchronicle.org)