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Feb 2, 2023 · The COVID-19 outbreak has caused, as of 10 November 2021, 2,064,011 confirmed infections and 23,372 deaths; the vaccination rate remains low at 15.8% as of 31 January 2022. The pandemic had a significant impact on the health and psychological wellbeing of the population, and on the Iraqi health system which was already weakened by years of ...
Aug 30, 2022 · August 30, 2022, 4:32 AM. Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we’re following Iraq’s escalating political crisis, Ukraine’s counteroffensive, and the latest developments in Brazil’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 19 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [23] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States -led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq.
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 ...
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 ...
