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Jul 28, 2022 · More than nine months after Iraq held its October 2021 parliamentary elections, political leaders have been unable to form a government. The country’s political crisis reached a boiling point ...
Saddam Hussein had been the president of Iraq since 1979. He was a dictator who ruled with an iron fist and crushed all opposition brutally. His term had been accused of widespread human rights violations, particularly against religious and ethnic minorities. He led Iraq to war against its neighbours, Iran and Kuwait.
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 ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Iraq crisis: Acts of inhumanity on unimaginable scale - UN. 1 September 2014. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse was one of the first Western journalists to enter the town of Amerli since a siege was ...
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 ...
Aug 4, 2020 · Iraq’s social and political landscape has changed drastically after an escalation of regional and global power competition, the COVID-19-induced health and economic crises, and the unprecedented uprising by peaceful demonstrators in October 2019 that led to formation of a new government. These developments have exacerbated long-standing ten-sions, feeding public distrust in the state and tribal violence in the south. They have also detrimentally affected minority communities, especially in ...
