Iraq
Republic of Iraq
Al-Jumhuriyah al-'Iraqiyah
CAPITAL: Baghdad
FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of red, white, and black horizontal stripes, with three five-pointed stars in green in th...
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Iraq
Few countries have received more of the world's attention during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century than Iraq. During those years, the country was involved in open warfare o...
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Iraq
POPULATION 24,001,816SHIITE MUSLIM 55 percentSUNNI MUSLIM 40 percentCHRISTIAN AND OTHER 5 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Lying in southwestern Asia, Iraq is bordered to the east by Ir...
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In 1927 a team of British geologists was drilling near Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, when black crude oil and gas gushed violently to the surface with a thunderous sound, carrying rocks fifty fe...
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“The nations in our coalition are determined to help the Iraqi people recover from years of tyranny. And we are determined to help build a free, and sovereign, and democratic nation.”
Pr...
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Iraq's terrorist leader, Saddam Hussein, has finally been captured recently. The man has been terrorizing Iraq for quite some time now, and has brought fear and war into his people's land. Now that we...
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The war in Iraq has brought different types of conflict into the view of the entire world. One of these conflicts has been a religious conflict. With 79% of Iraqis being Muslim conflict amongst t...
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