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A poll of over 5,000 Iraqi nationals found that 27% of polled Iraqi residents agreed that Iraq was in a civil war, while 61% thought Iraq was not. Two similar polls of Americans conducted in 2006 found that between 65% and 85% believed Iraq was in a civil war.
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War in Iraq (2013–2017) Part of the Iraqi conflict, the war on terror, spillover of the Syrian civil war and the war against the Islamic State: Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) Humvee on the street of Mosul, Northern Iraq, 16 November 2016 during the Battle of Mosul
Two polls of Americans conducted in 2006 found that between 65% and 85% believed Iraq was in a civil war. However, a similar poll of Iraqis conducted in 2007 found that 61% did not believe that they were in a civil war. Withdrawal of western coalition forces
Feb 13, 2024 · Background. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraq has undergone a long period of instability, with armed groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State taking advantage of the power vacuum...
- Iraq's demographic divide. Michael Izady / Columbia University. Iraq's three-way demographic divide didn't cause the current crisis, but it's a huge part of it.
- Sunni-Shia balance in the Middle East. The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr. This map of the region's Sunnis and Shias is crucial for understanding the larger geopolitics of the Iraq crisis and how its neighbors are responding.
- The Kurdish region, in Iraq and beyond. Arnold Platon. The Kurds — who are long-oppressed minorities in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran — have been fighting for their own country for more than a century.
- Iraq's enormous oil reserves. Energy-pedia. Iraq has the fifth largest proven oil reserves of any country, after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Iran.
Mar 20, 2023 · Iraq war 20 years on: How invasion plunged country into decades of chaos. 19 March 2023. By Jeremy Bowen,BBC News. JEREMY BOWEN / BBC. The fence is lined with photos of people killed by the...
The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict pitting a variety of Iraqi and international forces against IS from December 2013 to December 2017.
