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Sep 1, 2022 · Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have killed at least four people, security officials said on Thursday, as violence from a worsening political crisis hit the ...
Mar 20, 2003 · The Iraq War. In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved ...
May 2, 2024 · More than 90 percent of Iraq’s government revenue comes from oil, leaving the country hostage to global prices. Stay on top of Iraq latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Monday's violence was the culmination of weeks of political tension. Iraq last held elections in October 2021 but still doesn't have a government. There was a record low voter turnout of around 44 ...
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 ...
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Iraq made extensive use of chemical weapons during the Iran–Iraq ...
Nov 27, 2023 · IOM’s Climate Emergency Tracking in Iraq has recorded displacement of more than 130,000 people between 2016 and September 2023 due to the adverse effects of climate change in their areas of origin. Ten locations assessed in Thi-Qar for a new IOM Climate Vulnerability Assessment – published in November 2023 – have been completely abandoned.
