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Iraq has been successively ravaged by the 1980-1988 war with Iran, crippling sanctions after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, internal conflict after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, and the transnational jihadists of Islamic State after 2014. Its multiple challenges further include sectarian violence and Kurdish separatism. Crisis Group aims to promote locally-centred stabilisation and better governance of post-ISIS Iraq in order to reduce the risk of violent flare-ups in liberated areas and ...
Mar 20, 2023 · The U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, and withdrew in 2011, costing an estimated half a million Iraqis their lives, causing at least 9.2 million to be displaced, and resulting in more than 4.7 million to experience moderate or severe food insecurity. Today, 20 years after the initial invasion, the large-scale conflict has ended ...
Mar 28, 2018 · Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps. 28 March 2018. The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) says 98% of territory once claimed by the jihadist group across ...
Sep 8, 2022 · Iraq is reclaiming territory and yet faces internal conflict and a long road to recovery. Explosives and debris must be cleared from areas that have been retaken so that water and electric services can be restored. At least 2.5 million people need humanitarian assistance. Of those, 1.1 million are children,
Aug 1, 2022 · Iraq is in the midst of its worst and longest political crisis in years. At the center of this overheating conflict stands Iraqi political kingmaker Moqtada al-Sadr and a rival bloc of parties ...
Aug 8, 2014 · by Zack Beauchamp , Max Fisher and Dylan Matthews on August 8, 2014. The current Iraq crisis began in early June, when the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which ...
May 30, 2014 · Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war in 2014. The country now faces growing violence, a steady rise in Sunni Islamist extremism, an increasingly authoritarian leader that favors Iraq’s Shiites, and growing ethnic tension between Arabs and Kurds. The recent Iraqi election offers little promise that it can correct the corruption ...
