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2 days ago · Joao Silva/The New York Times. By Alissa J. Rubin. Reporting from Baghdad. May 28, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET. Iraqis have known the bitter taste of war so intimately and frequently over the past 40 years ...
3 days ago · The Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War (1990–91), was an international conflict triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait to acquire the nation’s large oil reserves, cancel a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expand Iraqi power in the region.
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20 hours ago · A decade after ISIS atrocities, Yazidis struggle to rebuild in Sinjar, Iraq, facing political, economic, and bureaucratic challenges. When Bassem Eido steps outside his modest village house in ...
2 days ago · History of Iraq. Prehistory. Bronze Age. Iron Age. Middle Ages. Early modern period. Modern Iraq. Iraq portal. v. t. e. Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
3 days ago · World Apr 03. Watch 8:38. Former president of Iraq reflects on U.S. invasion 20 years later. Sunday will mark 20 years since American troops captured Baghdad after a swift and seemingly...
Apr 18, 2024 · Documents on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, providing historical background on U.S. policy debates over Iraq dating to the Clinton administration; internal records that detail the Bush administration's decision-making leading to Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the controversial use of false intelligence to justify military action; materials that ...
1 day ago · On February 16, 2003, crowds of over 100,000 marched through Sydney to protest against military action against Iraq. (AFP: David Hancock) While many Australians were supportive of Howard's ...
