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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Prehistory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1 Prehistory </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prehistory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bronze_Age" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bronze_Age"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Bronze Age </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bronze_Age-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iron_Age" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iron_Age"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Iron Age </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iron_Age-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Middle_Age" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Middle_Age"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 Middle Age </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Middle_Age-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Early_modern" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> 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2003 invasion and war: 2003–2017 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2003_invasion_and_war:_2003–2017-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-war" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-war"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.9 Post-war </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post-war-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Geography </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Geography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Geography subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Climate </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Biodiversity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Biodiversity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Biodiversity </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Biodiversity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government_and_politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government_and_politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Government and politics </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Government_and_politics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Government and politics subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Government_and_politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Law" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Law"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Law </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Law-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Military </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Military-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foreign_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foreign_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 Foreign relations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foreign_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Human_rights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Human_rights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Human rights </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Human_rights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administrative_divisions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administrative_divisions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.5 Administrative divisions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Administrative_divisions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Economy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Economy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Tourism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tourism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Tourism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tourism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Finance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Transport </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oil_and_energy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oil_and_energy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Oil and energy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oil_and_energy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Water_supply_and_sanitation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Water_supply_and_sanitation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 Water supply and sanitation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Water_supply_and_sanitation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Infrastructure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Infrastructure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.6 Infrastructure </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Infrastructure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Demographics </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Demographics subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Cities_and_towns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cities_and_towns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Cities and towns </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cities_and_towns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ethnic_groups" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ethnic_groups"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Ethnic groups </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ethnic_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Languages </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Religion </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Diaspora_and_refugees" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Diaspora_and_refugees"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 Diaspora and refugees </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Diaspora_and_refugees-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6 Health </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.7 Education </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Culture </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Culture subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Art </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Architecture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Architecture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Architecture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Architecture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 Literature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Music" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 Music </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.5 Media </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuisine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuisine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.6 Cuisine </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuisine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.7 Sport </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Bibliography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-External_links-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle External links subsection </button> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.1 Government </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.2 History </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Maps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Maps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.3 Maps </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Maps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " 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Available in 265 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-265" aria-hidden="true" > 265 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Acèh</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbd mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A" title="Иракъ – Kabardian" lang="kbd" hreflang="kbd" data-title="Иракъ" data-language-autonym="Адыгэбзэ" data-language-local-name="Kabardian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Адыгэбзэ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ady mw-list-item"><a href="https://ady.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Adyghe" lang="ady" hreflang="ady" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Адыгабзэ" data-language-local-name="Adyghe" class="interlanguage-link-target">Адыгабзэ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A2%E1%88%AB%E1%89%85" title="ኢራቅ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ኢራቅ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Anarâškielâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target">अंगिका</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irac" title="Irac – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Irac" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D2%9F" title="Ираҟ – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="Ираҟ" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Аԥсшәа</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="العراق – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="العراق" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DC%A5%DC%9D%DC%AA%DC%90%DC%A9" title="ܥܝܪܐܩ – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="ܥܝܪܐܩ" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target">ܐܪܡܝܐ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D6%80%D5%A1%D6%84" title="Իրաք – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Իրաք" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Արեւմտահայերէն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-rup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irac" title="Irac – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" data-title="Irac" data-language-autonym="Armãneashti" data-language-local-name="Aromanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Armãneashti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Arpetan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95" title="ইৰাক – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ইৰাক" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">অসমীয়া</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="ईराक – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="ईराक" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">अवधी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A1ke" title="Iráke – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Iráke" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D3%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A" title="ГӀиракъ – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="ГӀиракъ" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target">Авар</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0raq" title="İraq – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="İraq" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95" title="ইরাক – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ইরাক" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Banyumasan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D2%A1" title="Ираҡ – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ираҡ" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ірак – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ірак" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ірак – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ірак" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="ईराक – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="ईराक" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bislama</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%A0%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%81%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target">Буряад</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A1k" title="Irák – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Irák" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Chavacano de Zamboanga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraki" title="Iraki – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Iraki" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiShona</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiTumbuka</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraccu" title="Iraccu – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Iraccu" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irac" title="Irac – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Irac" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dagbanli</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="لعراق – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="لعراق" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">الدارجة</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraek" title="Iraek – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" data-title="Iraek" data-language-autonym="Deitsch" data-language-local-name="Pennsylvania German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deitsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%A2%DE%A8%DE%83%DE%A7%DE%A4%DE%AA" title="ޢިރާޤު – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ޢިރާޤު" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ދިވެހިބަސް</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honooj%C3%ADtah_Tooh_Dine%CA%BC%C3%A9_Bik%C3%A9yah" title="Honoojítah Tooh Dineʼé Bikéyah – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Honoojítah Tooh Dineʼé Bikéyah" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Diné bizaad</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraak" title="Iraak – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Iraak" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BA" title="Ιράκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ιράκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Ирак Мастор – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Ирак Мастор" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Эрзянь</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irako" title="Irako – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Irako" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ff mw-list-item"><a href="https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Fula" lang="ff" hreflang="ff" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Fulfulde" data-language-local-name="Fula" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fulfulde</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Iar%C3%A1ic" title="An Iaráic – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Iaráic" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_Earack" title="Yn Earack – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Yn Earack" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0rak" title="İrak – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="İrak" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagauz</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ior%C3%A0c" title="Ioràc – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Ioràc" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target">ГӀалгӀай</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%8B%89%E5%85%8B" title="伊拉克 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="伊拉克" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target">贛語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ki mw-list-item"><a href="https://ki.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Kikuyu" lang="ki" hreflang="ki" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Gĩkũyũ" data-language-local-name="Kikuyu" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gĩkũyũ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%88%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%95" title="ઈરાક – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="ઈરાક" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target">ગુજરાતી</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-got mw-list-item"><a href="https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%82%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BA" title="𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌺 – Gothic" lang="got" hreflang="got" data-title="𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌺" data-language-autonym="𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺" data-language-local-name="Gothic" class="interlanguage-link-target">𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target">गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%9D%BC%ED%81%AC" title="이라크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="이라크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%C6%99i" title="Iraƙi – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Iraƙi" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBIlaka" title="ʻIlaka – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="ʻIlaka" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hawaiʻi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D6%80%D5%A1%D6%84" title="Իրաք – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Իրաք" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BC" title="इराक़ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="इराक़" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hornjoserbsce</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95" title="ইরাক – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="ইরাক" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target">বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-iu mw-list-item"><a href="https://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%90%83%E1%95%89%E1%92%83" title="ᐃᕉᒃ – Inuktitut" lang="iu" hreflang="iu" data-title="ᐃᕉᒃ" data-language-autonym="ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut" data-language-local-name="Inuktitut" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Iraki" title="I-Iraki – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="I-Iraki" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Drak" title="Írak – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Írak" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A7" title="עיראק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עיראק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak%C9%A9" title="Irakɩ – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Irakɩ" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%87%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D" title="ಇರಾಕ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಇರಾಕ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A7%E1%83%98" title="ერაყი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ერაყი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%90%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عِراق – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="عِراق" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target">कॉशुर / کٲشُر</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kaszëbsczi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irake" title="Irake – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Irake" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ikinyarwanda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Коми</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Kongo" lang="kg" hreflang="kg" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Kongo" data-language-local-name="Kongo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kongo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraka" title="Iraka – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Iraka" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kotava</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kreyòl ayisyen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kriyòl gwiyannen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irach" title="Irach – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Irach" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladino</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraca" title="Iraca – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Iraca" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C4%81ka" title="Irāka – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Irāka" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Лезги</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irakas" title="Irakas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Irakas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ligure</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingála</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irac" title="Irac – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Irac" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Livvinkarjala</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/raksygu%27e" title="raksygu'e – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="raksygu'e" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target">La .lojban.</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mad mw-list-item"><a href="https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Madurese" lang="mad" hreflang="mad" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Madhurâ" data-language-local-name="Madurese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Madhurâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A0ka" title="Iràka – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Iràka" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%87%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%96%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C" title="ഇറാഖ്‌ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഇറാഖ്‌" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%AAr%C4%81ki" title="Īrāki – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Īrāki" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target">Māori</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A7%E1%83%98" title="ერაყი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ერაყი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="العراق – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="العراق" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عیراق – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="عیراق" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%8F%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%A5%EA%AF%9B" title="ꯏꯔꯥꯛ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯏꯔꯥꯛ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiraque" title="Eiraque – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Eiraque" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Mirandés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target">Мокшень</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9B%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6" title="အီရတ်နိုင်ငံ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အီရတ်နိုင်ငံ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nedersaksies</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="इराक – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="इराक" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF" title="イラク – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="イラク" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A" title="Ӏиракъ – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Ӏиракъ" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraak" title="Iraak – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Iraak" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target">Novial</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Олык марий</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%95" title="ଇରାକ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଇରାକ" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target">ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraaq" title="Iraaq – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Iraaq" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroq" title="Iroq – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Iroq" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BC" title="ਇਰਾਕ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਇਰਾਕ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95" title="ईराक – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="ईराक" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target">पालि</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target">Pangcah</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-blk mw-list-item"><a href="https://blk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9B%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%81%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%91%E1%80%AE" title="အီရတ်ခမ်းထီ – Pa'O" lang="blk" hreflang="blk" data-title="အီရတ်ခမ်းထီ" data-language-autonym="ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ" data-language-local-name="Pa'O" class="interlanguage-link-target">ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Patois</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A2%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%9A%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%8B" title="អ៊ីរ៉ាក់ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="អ៊ីរ៉ាក់" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcd mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Picard" lang="pcd" hreflang="pcd" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Picard" data-language-local-name="Picard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Picard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tok Pisin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraque" title="Iraque – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Iraque" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qırımtatarca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ірак – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Ірак" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русиньскый</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ираак – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Ираак" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sakizaya</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraki" title="Iraki – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Iraki" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D" title="इराक् – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="इराक्" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A0" title="ᱤᱨᱟᱠ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱤᱨᱟᱠ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target">سرائیکی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Seediq" data-language-local-name="Taroko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seediq</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seeltersk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraku" title="Iraku – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Iraku" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%89%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%9A_%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%BA" title="ඉරාක ජනරජය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="ඉරාක ජනරජය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ss mw-list-item"><a href="https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Irakhi" title="I-Irakhi – Swati" lang="ss" hreflang="ss" data-title="I-Irakhi" data-language-autonym="SiSwati" data-language-local-name="Swati" class="interlanguage-link-target">SiSwati</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciraaq" title="Ciraaq – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Ciraaq" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target">Soomaaliga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عێراق – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="عێراق" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%88%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81" title="ஈராக்கு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஈராக்கு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%90iraq" title="Ɛiraq – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Ɛiraq" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taqbaylit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-tara mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Tarantino" lang="nap-x-tara" hreflang="nap-x-tara" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Tarandíne" data-language-local-name="Tarantino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tarandíne</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%8B%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Гыйрак – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Гыйрак" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B0%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%A2%E1%80%AE%E1%82%87%E1%80%9B%E1%81%A2%E1%81%B5%E1%80%BA%E1%82%88" title="မိူင်းဢီႇရၢၵ်ႈ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="မိူင်းဢီႇရၢၵ်ႈ" data-language-autonym="တႆး" data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target">တႆး</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Atayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Tayal" data-language-local-name="Atayal" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tayal</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D" title="ఇరాక్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ఇరాక్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tet mw-list-item"><a href="https://tet.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irake" title="Irake – Tetum" lang="tet" hreflang="tet" data-title="Irake" data-language-autonym="Tetun" data-language-local-name="Tetum" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tetun</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81" title="ประเทศอิรัก – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ประเทศอิรัก" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%BE%D2%9B" title="Ироқ – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Ироқ" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-to mw-list-item"><a href="https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBIlaaki" title="ʻIlaaki – Tongan" lang="to" hreflang="to" data-title="ʻIlaaki" data-language-autonym="Lea faka-Tonga" data-language-local-name="Tongan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lea faka-Tonga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8E%A2%E1%8E%B3%E1%8E%A9" title="ᎢᎳᎩ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="ᎢᎳᎩ" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᏣᎳᎩ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yrak" title="Yrak – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Yrak" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tw mw-list-item"><a href="https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Twi" lang="tw" hreflang="tw" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Twi" data-language-local-name="Twi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Twi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kcg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kcg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Tyap" lang="kcg" hreflang="kcg" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Tyap" data-language-local-name="Tyap" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tyap</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ирак – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Ирак" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Удмурт</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bug mw-list-item"><a href="https://bug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%A8%95%E1%A8%97%E1%A8%91" title="ᨕᨗᨑ – Buginese" lang="bug" hreflang="bug" data-title="ᨕᨗᨑ" data-language-autonym="Basa Ugi" data-language-local-name="Buginese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Ugi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" title="Ірак – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Ірак" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="عراق – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="عراق" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D9%89%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82" title="ئىراق – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="ئىراق" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target">ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vahcuengh</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vèneto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vepsän kel’</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Iraq" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lirak%C3%A4n" title="Lirakän – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Lirakän" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraak" title="Iraak – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Iraak" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target">Võro</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Walon</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%8B%89%E5%85%8B" title="伊拉克 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="伊拉克" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target">West-Vlams</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wo mw-list-item"><a href="https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraak" title="Iraak – Wolof" lang="wo" hreflang="wo" data-title="Iraak" data-language-autonym="Wolof" data-language-local-name="Wolof" class="interlanguage-link-target">Wolof</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%8B%89%E5%85%8B" title="伊拉克 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="伊拉克" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A7" title="איראק – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="איראק" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target">ייִדיש</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo mw-list-item"><a href="https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak" title="Irak – Yoruba" lang="yo" hreflang="yo" data-title="Irak" data-language-autonym="Yorùbá" data-language-local-name="Yoruba" class="interlanguage-link-target">Yorùbá</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a 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.ib-country-largest,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-lang{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-ethnic,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-religion,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-sovereignty{font-weight:normal;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fake-li{text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fake-li2{text-indent:0.5em;margin-left:1em;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-website{line-height:11pt}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-map-caption3{position:relative;top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn{text-align:left;margin:0 auto}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn-num{margin-left:1em}</style><table class="infobox ib-country vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above adr"><div class="fn org country-name">Republic of Iraq</div><div class="ib-country-names"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></div> <div><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Iraq" title="Flag of Iraq">Flag</a></div> </div> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Iraq"><img alt="Coat of arms of Iraq" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq.svg/250px-Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="787" /></a></div> <div><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Iraq" title="Coat of arms of Iraq"> Coat of arms</a></div> </div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data anthem">Anthem: مَوْطِنِيْ <a href="/wiki/Mawtini_(Ibrahim_Tuqan_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mawtini (Ibrahim Tuqan song)">Mawṭinī</a> "My Homeland"<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div><div class="center"><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" style="width:220px;" data-durationhint="106" data-mwtitle="United_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/United_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/16/United_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg/United_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=aa&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="aa" label="Qafár af ‪(aa)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=ar&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="ar" label="العربية ‪(ar)‬" data-dir="rtl" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=as&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="as" label="অসমীয়া ‪(as)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=es&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" 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srclang="zh-Hant-HK" label="中文（香港） ‪(zh-hk)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_Mawtini.ogg&lang=zh-tw&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="zh-Hant-TW" label="中文（臺灣） ‪(zh-tw)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Iraq_(orthographic).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of Iraq"><img alt="Location of Iraq" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Iraq_%28orthographic%29.svg/250px-Iraq_%28orthographic%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Iraq_%28orthographic%29.svg/500px-Iraq_%28orthographic%29.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="553" data-file-height="553" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital<div class="ib-country-largest">and largest 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language">Armenian</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen#Language" title="Iraqi Turkmen">Turkish/Turkmen</a><a href="#cite_note-Constitution_of_Iraq-2">[2]</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> <div class="ib-country-ethnic"> (1987)<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>75–80% <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a></li><li>15–20% <a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Iraq" title="Kurds in Iraq">Kurds</a></li><li>5–10% <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen" title="Iraqi Turkmen">Turkmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq" title="History of the Jews in Iraq">Jews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iranians_in_Iraq" title="Iranians in Iraq">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandaeans" title="Mandaeans">Mandaeans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq" title="Demographics of Iraq">Others</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion <div class="ib-country-religion"> (2020)<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 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class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iraqis" title="Iraqis">Iraqi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Iraq" title="Politics of Iraq">Government</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Federal <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">parliamentary republic</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iraq" title="President of Iraq">President</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Rashid" title="Abdul Latif Rashid">Abdul Latif Rashid</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq">Speaker</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mashhadani" title="Mahmoud al-Mashhadani">Mahmoud al-Mashhadani</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Legislature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Upper_house" title="Upper house">Upper house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Federation_Council_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Federation Council of Iraq">Federation Council</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[a]</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Lower_house" title="Lower house">Lower house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Iraq" title="History of Iraq">Establishment</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iraq" title="Kingdom of Iraq">Independence declared</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">3 October 1932</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/14_July_Revolution" title="14 July Revolution">Republic declared</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">14 July 1958</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Current constitution</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">15 October 2005</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Iraq" title="Geography of Iraq">Area </a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">438,317 km2 (169,235 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">58th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Water (%)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">4.93 (as of 2024)<a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq" title="Demographics of Iraq">Population</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• 2025 census</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Neutral increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/11px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/17px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/22px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="347" data-file-height="346" /> 47,020,774<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">34th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Density</div></th><td class="infobox-data">82.7/km2 (214.2/sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" title="List of countries and dependencies by population density">125th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>(<a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">2024 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $655.417 billion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.IQ-14">[13]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">48th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $14,756<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.IQ-14">[13]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita">110th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488" />(nominal)</th><td class="infobox-data">2024 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $264.149 billion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.IQ-14">[13]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">46th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $5,947.315<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.IQ-14">[13]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">106th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gini_coefficient" title="Gini coefficient">Gini</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488" />(2012)</th><td class="infobox-data">29.5<a href="#cite_note-wb-gini-15">[14]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style>low inequality</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488" />(2022)</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 0.673<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494" />medium (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">128th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_dinar" title="Iraqi dinar">Iraqi dinar</a> (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">IQD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+3 (<a href="/wiki/Arabia_Standard_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia Standard Time">AST</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Iraq" title="Telephone numbers in Iraq">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Iraq" title="Telephone numbers in Iraq">+964</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IQ" title="ISO 3166-2:IQ">IQ</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/.iq" title=".iq">.iq</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Internationalized_country_code_top-level_domain" title="Internationalized country code top-level domain">.العراق</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Iraq,<a href="#cite_note-17">[b]</a> officially known as the Republic of Iraq,<a href="#cite_note-18">[c]</a> is a country in <a href="/wiki/West_Asia" title="West Asia">West Asia</a> It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_border" title="Iraq–Saudi Arabia border">south</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Turkey_border" title="Iraq–Turkey border">the north</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_border" title="Iran–Iraq border">the east</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Kuwait_border" title="Iraq–Kuwait border">southeast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Jordan_border" title="Iraq–Jordan border">the southwest</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Syria_border" title="Iraq–Syria border">west</a>. The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq" title="Demographics of Iraq">a population</a> of over 46 million, making it the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_area" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by area">58th largest country by area</a> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by population">31st most populous in the world</a>. <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_of_Iraq" title="List of largest cities of Iraq">largest in Iraq</a>. Starting in the <a href="/wiki/6th_millennium_BC" title="6th millennium BC">6th millennium BC</a>, the fertile plains between Iraq's <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> rivers, referred to as <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>, fostered the rise of early cities, civilisations, and empires including <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_Empire" title="Akkadian Empire">Akkad</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>. Known as the <a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization" title="Cradle of civilization">cradle of civilisation</a>, Mesopotamia saw the invention of <a href="/wiki/History_of_writing" title="History of writing">writing systems</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_mathematics" title="History of mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_navigation" title="History of navigation">navigation</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices" title="History of timekeeping devices">timekeeping</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_calendar" title="Babylonian calendar">calendar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_astrology" title="Babylonian astrology">astrology</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">wheel</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sailboat" title="Sailboat">sailboat</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu" title="Code of Ur-Nammu">law code</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Mesopotamia" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia">Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia</a>, Baghdad became the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> and a global cultural and intellectual hub during the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age">Islamic Golden Age</a>, home to institutions such as the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Wisdom" title="House of Wisdom">House of Wisdom</a>. Following the city's <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad" title="Siege of Baghdad">destruction</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongols</a> in 1258, the region faced a prolonged decline due to plagues and successive empires. Additionally, Iraq holds religious significance in <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yazidism" title="Yazidism">Yazidism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism">Mandaeism</a>. It has a deep biblical history.<a href="#cite_note-19">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopædia_Britannica-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-World_History_Encyclopedia-21">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a> Since independence in 1932, Iraq has experienced spells of significant <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq" title="Economy of Iraq">economic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Iraq">military growth</a> alongside periods of <a href="/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East" title="List of modern conflicts in the Middle East">instability and conflict</a>. It was part of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> until the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Iraq" title="Mandatory Iraq">Iraq</a> was then established by the British in 1921. It transitioned into an <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iraq" title="Kingdom of Iraq">independent kingdom</a> in 1932. Following a coup in 1958, Iraq became a <a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Iraq" title="First Republic of Iraq">republic</a>, first led by <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Karim_Qasim" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Karim Qasim">Abdul Karim Qasim</a>, followed by <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Salam_Arif" title="Abdul Salam Arif">Abdul Salam Arif</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Arif" title="Abdul Rahman Arif">Abdul Rahman Arif</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region">Ba'ath Party</a> took <a href="/wiki/17_July_Revolution" title="17 July Revolution">power in 1968</a>, establishing a <a href="/wiki/Ba%27athist_Iraq" title="Ba'athist Iraq">one-party state</a> under <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_al-Bakr" title="Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr">Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, who presided over <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">war against Iran</a> from 1980 to 1988 and then with <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Kuwait</a> in 1990. In 2003, a <a href="/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq" title="Multi-National Force – Iraq">U.S.-led coalition forces</a> <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invaded</a> and <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Iraq_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)">occupied Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)" title="Battle of Baghdad (2003)">overthrowing Saddam</a> and triggering an <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)">insurgency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_civil_war_(2006%E2%80%932008)" title="Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)">sectarian violence</a>. Known as the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>, it <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">ended in 2011</a>. From 2013 to 2017, Iraq faced another <a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017)" title="War in Iraq (2013–2017)">war</a> with the rise and defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a>, as a result of an Islamist insurgency from 2011 to 2013. Today <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_conflict" title="Iraqi conflict">post-war conflict</a> continues at a lower scale, hampering the stability of Iraq alongside the <a href="/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)">rising influence of Iran</a>, since 2003.<a href="#cite_note-cnn-dec11-24">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[22]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Federal_parliamentary_republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal parliamentary republic">federal parliamentary republic</a>, Iraq is considered an <a href="/wiki/Middle_power" title="Middle power">emerging middle power</a>. It is home to a diverse population, <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Iraq" title="Geography of Iraq">geography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_of_Iraq" title="Wildlife of Iraq">wildlife</a>. Most Iraqis are Muslim, while significant minorities include <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Iraq" title="Christianity in Iraq">Christians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism">Mandaens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yazidism" title="Yazidism">Yazidis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yarsanism" title="Yarsanism">Yarsanism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judaism_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in Iraq">Jews</a>. <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi people">Iraqis</a> are ethnically diverse; mostly <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen" title="Iraqi Turkmen">Turkmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenians in Iraq">Armenians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doms_in_Iraq" title="Doms in Iraq">Domcs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iranians_in_Iraq" title="Iranians in Iraq">Persians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shabaks" title="Shabaks">Shabakis</a>. <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a> are the official languages of Iraq, while <a href="/wiki/Suret_language" title="Suret language">Suret</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandaic_language" title="Mandaic language">Mandaic</a> are spoken regionally. Iraq, home to one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves" title="List of countries by proven oil reserves">largest oil reserves in the world</a>, has a significant <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq" title="Petroleum industry in Iraq">oil and gas industry</a>. It is also popular for its agriculture and tourism. At present, Iraq <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction of Iraq">is rebuilding</a> with <a href="/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Iraq" title="Foreign aid to Iraq">foreign support</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-Iraq_–_The_northeast-31">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2></div> There are several suggested origins for the name. One dates to the <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerian</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Uruk" title="Uruk">Uruk</a> and is thus ultimately of <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_language" title="Sumerian language">Sumerian</a> origin.<a href="#cite_note-34">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[32]</a> Another possible etymology for the name is from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Persian" title="Middle Persian">Middle Persian</a> word erāg, meaning "lowlands".<a href="#cite_note-36">[33]</a> An Arabic <a href="/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">folk etymology</a> for the name is "deeply rooted, well-watered; <a href="/wiki/Fertile_Crescent" title="Fertile Crescent">fertile</a>".<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a> During the medieval period, there was a region called ʿIrāq ʿArabī ("Arabian Iraq") for Lower <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Persian_Iraq" title="Persian Iraq">ʿIrāq ʿAjamī</a> ("Persian Iraq"),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBosworth1998538-38">[35]</a> for the region now situated in Central and Western Iran.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBosworth1998538-38">[35]</a> The term historically included the plain south of the <a href="/wiki/Hamrin_Mountains" title="Hamrin Mountains">Hamrin Mountains</a> and did not include the northernmost and <a href="/wiki/Al-Jazira,_Mesopotamia" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia">westernmost</a> parts of the modern territory of Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-Bernhardsson-97-39">[36]</a> Prior to the middle of the 19th century, the term Eyraca Arabica was commonly used to describe Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-40">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[38]</a> The term <a href="/wiki/Sawad" title="Sawad">Sawad</a> was also used in early Islamic times for the region of the <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plain" title="Alluvial plain">alluvial plain</a> of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As an Arabic word, عراق ʿirāq means "hem", "shore", "bank", or "edge", so that the name by folk etymology came to be interpreted as "the <a href="/wiki/Escarpment" title="Escarpment">escarpment</a>", such as at the south and east of the <a href="/wiki/Al-Jazira,_Mesopotamia" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia">Jazira</a> Plateau, which forms the northern and western edge of the "al-Iraq arabi" area.<a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Arabic_phonology" title="Arabic phonology">Arabic pronunciation</a> is <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Arabic" title="Help:IPA/Arabic">[ʕiˈrɑːq]</a>. In English, it is either <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɪˈrɑːk/</a> (the only pronunciation listed in the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a> and the first one in Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary<a href="#cite_note-43">[40]</a>) or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɪˈræk/</a> (listed first by <a href="/wiki/Macquarie_Dictionary" title="Macquarie Dictionary">MQD</a>, the American Heritage Dictionary,<a href="#cite_note-44">[41]</a> and the Random House Dictionary.<a href="#cite_note-45">[42]</a>) When the British established the <a href="/wiki/Hashemites" title="Hashemites">Hashemite</a> king on 23 August 1921, <a href="/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq" title="Faisal I of Iraq">Faisal I of Iraq</a>, the official English name of the country changed from Mesopotamia to the endonymic Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-1990-46">[43]</a> Since January 1992, the official name of the state is "Republic of Iraq" (Jumhūriyyat al-ʿIrāq), reaffirmed in the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Constitution</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Constitution-47">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> The "<a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Cradle of Civilisation">Cradle of Civilisation</a>" is a common term for the area comprising modern Iraq as it was home to the earliest known <a href="/wiki/Civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilisation">civilisation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerian civilisation</a>, which arose in the fertile <a href="/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Tigris-Euphrates river system">Tigris-Euphrates river valley</a> of southern Iraq in the <a href="/wiki/Chalcolithic" title="Chalcolithic">Chalcolithic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ubaid_period" title="Ubaid period">Ubaid period</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Maisels2005-50">[47]</a> It was there, in the late <a href="/wiki/4th_millennium_BC" title="4th millennium BC">4th millennium BC</a>, that the world's first known <a href="/wiki/Cuneiform_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneiform script">writing system</a> emerged.<a href="#cite_note-:5-51">[48]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerians</a> were also the first known to harness the <a href="/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">wheel</a> and create <a href="/wiki/City_States" class="mw-redirect" title="City States">city states</a>; their writings record the first known evidence of <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Written_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Written Law">written law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Organised_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Organised religion">organised religion</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Maisels2005-50">[47]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_language" title="Sumerian language">Sumerian language</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Language_isolate" title="Language isolate">language isolate</a>. The major city states of the early Sumerian period were <a href="/wiki/Eridu" title="Eridu">Eridu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bad-tibira" title="Bad-tibira">Bad-tibira</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larsa" title="Larsa">Larsa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sippar" title="Sippar">Sippar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shuruppak" title="Shuruppak">Shuruppak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uruk" title="Uruk">Uruk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kish_(Sumer)" title="Kish (Sumer)">Kish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ur" title="Ur">Ur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nippur" title="Nippur">Nippur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lagash" title="Lagash">Lagash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Girsu" title="Girsu">Girsu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umma" title="Umma">Umma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamazi" title="Hamazi">Hamazi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adab_(city)" title="Adab (city)">Adab</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mari,_Syria" title="Mari, Syria">Mari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isin" title="Isin">Isin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kutha" title="Kutha">Kutha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Der_(Sumer)" title="Der (Sumer)">Der</a> and <a href="/wiki/Akshak" title="Akshak">Akshak</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Maisels2005-50">[47]</a> The cities to the north like <a href="/wiki/Assur" title="Assur">Ashur</a>, Arbela (modern <a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Arrapha" title="Arrapha">Arrapha</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Kirkuk" title="Kirkuk">Kirkuk</a>) were also extant in what was to be called Assyria from the 25th century BC; however, at this stage, they were Sumerian-ruled administrative centres. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h3></div> Between 65,000 BC and 35,000 BC, northern Iraq was home to a <a href="/wiki/Neanderthal" title="Neanderthal">Neanderthal</a> culture, archaeological remains of which have been discovered at <a href="/wiki/Shanidar_Cave" title="Shanidar Cave">Shanidar Cave</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[49]</a> This region is also the location of a number of pre-Neolithic burials, dating from approximately 11,000 BC.<a href="#cite_note-Ralph_S._Solecki_2004_pp._3-53">[50]</a> Since approximately 10,000 BC, Iraq, together with a large part of the <a href="/wiki/Fertile_Crescent" title="Fertile Crescent">Fertile Crescent</a>, was a centre of a <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> culture known as <a href="/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_A" title="Pre-Pottery Neolithic A">Pre-Pottery Neolithic A</a> (PPNA), where agriculture and cattle breeding appeared for the first time. In Iraq, this period has been excavated at sites like <a href="/wiki/M%27lefaat" title="M'lefaat">M'lefaat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nemrik_9" title="Nemrik 9">Nemrik 9</a>. The following Neolithic period, <a href="/wiki/PPNB" class="mw-redirect" title="PPNB">PPNB</a>, is represented by rectangular houses. At the time of the pre-pottery Neolithic, people used vessels made of stone, <a href="/wiki/Gypsum" title="Gypsum">gypsum</a> and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). Finds of <a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">obsidian</a> tools from <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> are evidences of early trade relations. Further important sites of human advancement were <a href="/wiki/Jarmo" title="Jarmo">Jarmo</a> (circa 7100 BC),<a href="#cite_note-Ralph_S._Solecki_2004_pp._3-53">[50]</a> a number of sites belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Halaf_culture" title="Halaf culture">Halaf culture</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tell_al-%27Ubaid" title="Tell al-'Ubaid">Tell al-'Ubaid</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Type_site" title="Type site">type site</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ubaid_period" title="Ubaid period">Ubaid period</a> (between 6500 BC and 3800 BC).<a href="#cite_note-54">[51]</a> The respective periods show ever-increasing levels of advancement in agriculture, tool-making and architecture. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bronze_Age">Bronze Age</h3></div> In the 26th century BC, <a href="/wiki/Eannatum" title="Eannatum">Eannatum</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lagash" title="Lagash">Lagash</a> created a short-lived <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a>. Later, <a href="/wiki/Lugal-Zage-Si" class="mw-redirect" title="Lugal-Zage-Si">Lugal-Zage-Si</a>, the priest-king of <a href="/wiki/Umma" title="Umma">Umma</a>, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash dynasty in the area, then conquered <a href="/wiki/Uruk" title="Uruk">Uruk</a>, making it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[52]</a> It was during this period that the <a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a> originates, which includes the tale of <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Flood" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Flood">The Great Flood</a>. The origin and location of Akkad remain unclear. Its people spoke <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Akkadian</a>, an <a href="/wiki/East_Semitic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="East Semitic language">East Semitic language</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[53]</a> Between the 29th and 24th centuries BC, a number of kingdoms and city states within Iraq began to have Akkadian speaking dynasties, including <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ekallatum" title="Ekallatum">Ekallatum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isin" title="Isin">Isin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larsa" title="Larsa">Larsa</a>. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sargon_of_Akkad_(frontal).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg/220px-Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg/330px-Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg/440px-Sargon_of_Akkad_%28frontal%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1836" data-file-height="2562" /></a><figcaption>Bronze head of an <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_Empire" title="Akkadian Empire">Akkadian</a> ruler from <a href="/wiki/Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a>, presumably depicting either <a href="/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad" title="Sargon of Akkad">Sargon of Akkad</a>, or Sargon's grandson <a href="/wiki/Naram-Sin_of_Akkad" title="Naram-Sin of Akkad">Naram-Sin</a></figcaption></figure> However, the Sumerians remained generally dominant until the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_Empire" title="Akkadian Empire">Akkadian Empire</a> (2335–2124 BC), based in the city of <a href="/wiki/Akkad_(city)" title="Akkad (city)">Akkad</a> in central Iraq. <a href="/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad" title="Sargon of Akkad">Sargon of Akkad</a> founded the empire, conquered all of the city states of southern and central Iraq, and subjugated the kings of Assyria, thus uniting the Sumerians and Akkadians in one state. The Akkadian Empire was the first ancient <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> after the long-lived civilization of <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumer</a>. He then set about expanding his empire, conquering <a href="/wiki/Gutium" class="mw-redirect" title="Gutium">Gutium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elam" title="Elam">Elam</a> in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, and had victories that did not result into a full conquest against the <a href="/wiki/Amorites" title="Amorites">Amorites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ebla" title="Ebla">Eblaites</a> of the Levant. The empire of Akkad likely fell in the 22nd century BC, within 180 years of its founding, ushering in a "<a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)" title="Dark Ages (historiography)">Dark Age</a>" with no prominent imperial authority until the <a href="/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" title="Third Dynasty of Ur">Third Dynasty of Ur</a>. The region's political structure may have reverted to the status quo ante of local governance by <a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">city-states</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Zettler24-57">[54]</a> After the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in the late 22nd century BC, the <a href="/wiki/Gutians" class="mw-redirect" title="Gutians">Gutians</a> occupied the south for a few decades, while Assyria reasserted its independence in the north. Most of southern Mesopotamia was again united under one ruler during the <a href="/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" title="Third Dynasty of Ur">Ur III period</a>, most notably during the rule of the prolific king <a href="/wiki/Shulgi" title="Shulgi">Shulgi</a>. His accomplishments include the completion of construction of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Ziggurat_of_Ur" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Ziggurat of Ur">Great Ziggurat of Ur</a>, begun by his father <a href="/wiki/Ur-Nammu" title="Ur-Nammu">Ur-Nammu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[55]</a> In 1792 BC, an <a href="/wiki/Amorite" class="mw-redirect" title="Amorite">Amorite</a> ruler named <a href="/wiki/Hammurabi" title="Hammurabi">Hammurabi</a> came to power and immediately set about building Babylon into a major city, declaring himself its king. Hammurabi conquered southern and central Iraq, as well as Elam to the east and Mari to the west, then engaged in a protracted war with the Assyrian king <a href="/wiki/Ishme-Dagan" title="Ishme-Dagan">Ishme-Dagan</a> for domination of the region, creating the short-lived <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonian Empire">Babylonian Empire</a>. He eventually prevailed over the successor of Ishme-Dagan and subjected Assyria and its Anatolian colonies. By the middle of the eighteenth century BC, the Sumerians had lost their cultural identity and ceased to exist as a distinct people.<a href="#cite_note-59">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[57]</a> It is from the period of Hammurabi that southern Iraq came to be known as <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>, while the north had already coalesced into <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a> hundreds of years before. However, his empire was short-lived, and rapidly collapsed after his death, with both Assyria and southern Iraq, in the form of the <a href="/wiki/Sealand_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Sealand Dynasty">Sealand Dynasty</a>, falling back into native Akkadian hands. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_(3)_(32577951406).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg/220px-A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg/330px-A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg/440px-A_lion_on_the_Ishtar_Gate_of_Babylon_reconstructed_with_original_bricks_at_the_Pergamon_Museum_in_Berlin_575_BCE_%283%29_%2832577951406%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Detail of a relief from the reconstruction of the <a href="/wiki/Ishtar_Gate" title="Ishtar Gate">Ishtar Gate</a>, which display symbols of the Babylonian god <a href="/wiki/Marduk" title="Marduk">Marduk</a>.</figcaption></figure> After this, another foreign people, the <a href="/wiki/Language_Isolate" class="mw-redirect" title="Language Isolate">Language Isolate</a> speaking <a href="/wiki/Kassites" title="Kassites">Kassites</a>, seized control of Babylonia. Iraq was from this point divided into three polities: <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a> in the north, <a href="/wiki/Kassite" class="mw-redirect" title="Kassite">Kassite</a> <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a> in the south central region, and the <a href="/wiki/Sealand_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Sealand Dynasty">Sealand Dynasty</a> in the far south. The Sealand Dynasty was finally conquered by Kassite Babylonia circa 1380 BC. The origin of the Kassites is uncertain.<a href="#cite_note-61">[58]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Middle_Assyrian_Empire" title="Middle Assyrian Empire">Middle Assyrian Empire</a> (1365–1020 BC) saw Assyria rise to be the most powerful nation in the known world. Beginning with the campaigns of <a href="/wiki/Ashur-uballit_I" title="Ashur-uballit I">Ashur-uballit I</a>, Assyria destroyed the rival <a href="/wiki/Hurrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurrian">Hurrian</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mitanni" title="Mitanni">Mitanni</a> Empire, annexed huge swathes of the <a href="/wiki/Hittite_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Hittite Empire">Hittite Empire</a> for itself, annexed northern Babylonia from the Kassites, forced the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Empire">Egyptian Empire</a> from the region, and defeated the <a href="/wiki/Elamites" class="mw-redirect" title="Elamites">Elamites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phrygians" title="Phrygians">Phrygians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canaanites" class="mw-redirect" title="Canaanites">Canaanites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoenicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoenicians">Phoenicians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cilicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cilicians">Cilicians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gutians" class="mw-redirect" title="Gutians">Gutians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dilmun" title="Dilmun">Dilmunites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arameans" title="Arameans">Arameans</a>. At its height, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Assyrian_Empire" title="Middle Assyrian Empire">Middle Assyrian Empire</a> stretched from <a href="/wiki/The_Caucasus" class="mw-redirect" title="The Caucasus">The Caucasus</a> to <a href="/wiki/Dilmun" title="Dilmun">Dilmun</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a>), and from the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> coasts of <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenicia</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" title="Zagros Mountains">Zagros Mountains</a> of <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. In 1235 BC, <a href="/wiki/Tukulti-Ninurta_I" title="Tukulti-Ninurta I">Tukulti-Ninurta I</a> of Assyria took the throne of <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronze Age collapse">Bronze Age collapse</a> (1200–900 BC), Babylonia was in a state of chaos, dominated for long periods by Assyria and <a href="/wiki/Elam" title="Elam">Elam</a>. The Kassites were driven from power by Assyria and Elam, allowing native south Mesopotamian kings to rule Babylonia for the first time, although often subject to Assyrian or Elamite rulers. However, these Akkadian kings were unable to prevent new waves of <a href="/wiki/West_Semitic_languages" title="West Semitic languages">West Semitic</a> migrants entering southern Iraq, and during the 11th century BC <a href="/wiki/Arameans" title="Arameans">Arameans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suteans" title="Suteans">Suteans</a> entered Babylonia from <a href="/wiki/The_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="The Levant">The Levant</a>, and these were followed in the late 10th to early 9th century BC by the <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldeans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[59]</a> However, the Chaldeans were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iron_Age">Iron Age</h3></div> After a period of comparative decline in <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>, it once more began to expand with the <a href="/wiki/Neo_Assyrian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo Assyrian Empire">Neo Assyrian Empire</a> (935–605 BC). Because of its geopolitical dominance and ideology based in <a href="/wiki/World_domination" title="World domination">world domination</a>, the Neo-Assyrian Empire is by many researchers regarded to have been the first <a href="/wiki/World_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="World empire">world empire</a>.<a href="#cite_note-64">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a> At its height, the empire was the strongest military power in the world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAberbach20034-66">[63]</a> Iraq became the centre of an empire stretching from <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elam" title="Elam">Elam</a> in the east, to <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a> in the west, and from <a href="/wiki/The_Caucasus" class="mw-redirect" title="The Caucasus">The Caucasus</a> in the north to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nubia" title="Nubia">Nubia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a> in the south.<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a> It was during this period that an Akkadian-influenced form of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Aramaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Aramaic">Eastern Aramaic</a> was adopted by the Assyrians as their <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a>, and Mesopotamian Aramaic began to supplant Akkadian as the spoken language of the general populace of both Assyria and Babylonia. The descendant dialects of this tongue survive amongst the <a href="/wiki/Mandaeans" title="Mandaeans">Mandaeans</a> of southern Iraq and <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> of northern Iraq. The <a href="/wiki/Arab_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab people">Arabs</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldeans</a> are first mentioned in written history (circa 850 BC) in the annals of <a href="/wiki/Shalmaneser_III" title="Shalmaneser III">Shalmaneser III</a>. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iraqi_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Iraqi_Museum.jpg/250px-Iraqi_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Iraqi_Museum.jpg/330px-Iraqi_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Iraqi_Museum.jpg/500px-Iraqi_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lamassu" title="Lamassu">Lamassu</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> gallery at the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Museum" title="Iraq Museum">Iraq Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a></figcaption></figure> The Neo-Assyrian Empire left a legacy of great cultural significance. The political structures established by the Neo-Assyrian Empire became the model for the later empires that succeeded it and the ideology of <a href="/wiki/Universal_monarchy" title="Universal monarchy">universal rule</a> promulgated by the Neo-Assyrian kings inspired similar ideas of rights to <a href="/wiki/World_domination" title="World domination">world domination</a> in later empires. The Neo-Assyrian Empire became an important part of later folklore and literary traditions in northern Mesopotamia. <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, and thus in turn also <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, was profoundly affected by the period of Neo-Assyrian rule; numerous Biblical stories appear to draw on earlier Assyrian mythology and history and the Assyrian impact on early Jewish theology was immense. Although the Neo-Assyrian Empire is prominently remembered today for the supposed excessive brutality of the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Neo-Assyrian_Empire" title="Military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire">Neo-Assyrian army</a>, the Assyrians were not excessively brutal when compared to other civilizations.<a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[66]</a> In the late 7th century BC, the Assyrian Empire tore itself apart with a series of brutal civil wars, weakening itself to such a degree that a coalition of its former subjects, the <a href="/wiki/Babylonians" class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonians">Babylonians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Medes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian people">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cimmerians" title="Cimmerians">Cimmerians</a>, were able to attack Assyria, finally bringing its empire down by 605 BC.<a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a> The short-lived <a href="/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire" title="Neo-Babylonian Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a> (620–539 BC) succeeded that of Assyria. It failed to attain the size, power or longevity of its predecessor; however, it came to dominate <a href="/wiki/The_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="The Levant">The Levant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Israel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Judah</a>, and to defeat <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>. Initially, Babylon was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldeans</a>, who had migrated to the region in the late 10th or early 9th century BC. Its greatest king, <a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II" title="Nebuchadnezzar II">Nebuchadnezzar II</a>, rivalled <a href="/wiki/Hammurabi" title="Hammurabi">Hammurabi</a> as the greatest king of Babylon. However, by 556 BC, the Chaldeans had been deposed by the Assyrian-born <a href="/wiki/Nabonidus" title="Nabonidus">Nabonidus</a> and his son and regent <a href="/wiki/Belshazzar" title="Belshazzar">Belshazzar</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Street_in_Babylon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/250px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/330px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/500px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>A partial view of the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a></figcaption></figure> The transfer of empire to <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> marked the first time the city, and southern Mesopotamia in general, had risen to dominate the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Near_East" title="Ancient Near East">Ancient Near East</a> since the collapse of <a href="/wiki/Hammurabi" title="Hammurabi">Hammurabi</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Old_Babylonian_Empire" title="Old Babylonian Empire">Old Babylonian Empire</a>. The period of Neo-Babylonian rule saw unprecedented economic and population growth and a renaissance of culture and artwork. <a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II" title="Nebuchadnezzar II">Nebuchadnezzar II</a> succeeded <a href="/wiki/Nabopolassar" title="Nabopolassar">Nabopolassar</a> in 605 BC. The empire Nebuchadnezzar inherited was among the most powerful in the world, in which he quickly reinforced his father's alliance with the Medes by marrying Cyaxares's daughter or granddaughter, <a href="/wiki/Amytis_of_Babylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Amytis of Babylon">Amytis</a>. Some sources suggest that the famous <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon" title="Hanging Gardens of Babylon">Hanging Gardens of Babylon</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World" title="Seven Wonders of the Ancient World">Seven Wonders of the Ancient World</a>, were built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife (though the existence of these gardens is debated). Nebuchadnezzar's 43-year reign would bring with it a golden age for Babylon, which was to become the most powerful kingdom in the Middle East.<a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> In the 6th century BC, <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a> of neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Persia</a> defeated the Neo-Babylonian Empire at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Opis" title="Battle of Opis">Battle of Opis</a> and Mesopotamia was subsumed into the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a>. The Achaemenids made <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> their main capital. The Chaldeans disappeared at around this time, though both Assyria and Babylonia endured and thrived under Achaemenid rule (see <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Assyria" title="Achaemenid Assyria">Achaemenid Assyria</a>). Their kings retained Assyrian Imperial Aramaic as the language of empire, together with the Assyrian imperial infrastructure, and an Assyrian style of art and architecture.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the late 4th century BC, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> conquered the region, putting it under <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic civilization">Hellenistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid</a> rule for over two centuries.<a href="#cite_note-72">[69]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthians</a> (247 BC – 224 AD) from Persia conquered the region during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_Parthia" title="Mithridates I of Parthia">Mithridates I of Parthia</a> (r. 171–138 BC). From northwestern Mesopotamia, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Romans</a> invaded western parts of the region <a href="/wiki/Roman-Parthian_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman-Parthian Wars">several times</a>, and for over four centuries they ruled part of it, that were incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia_(Roman_province)" title="Mesopotamia (Roman province)">Mesopotamia province</a>, until it was conquered by the Muslims in the 7th century. For a short period they also ruled Assyria, which was incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Assyria_(Roman_province)" title="Assyria (Roman province)">Assyria Provincia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[71]</a> <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> began to take hold in Iraq (particularly in <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>) between the 1st and 3rd centuries, and Assyria became a centre of <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Christianity" title="Syriac Christianity">Syriac Christianity</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syriac_literature" title="Syriac literature">Syriac literature</a>. A number of independent states evolved in the north during the Parthian era, such as <a href="/wiki/Adiabene" title="Adiabene">Adiabene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assur" title="Assur">Assur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osroene" title="Osroene">Osroene</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hatra" title="Hatra">Hatra</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Sassanid_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanid dynasty">Sassanids</a> of Persia under <a href="/wiki/Ardashir_I" title="Ardashir I">Ardashir I</a> destroyed the Parthian Empire and conquered the region in 224 AD. During the 240s and 250s AD, the Sassanids gradually conquered the independent states, culminating with Assur in 256 AD. The region became the frontier and battleground between the <a href="/wiki/Sassanid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanid Empire">Sassanid Empire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Age">Middle Age</h3></div> The first organised conflict between invading Arab-Muslim forces and occupying Sassanid domains in Mesopotamia seems to have been in 634, when the Arabs were defeated at the Battle of the Bridge. This was followed by <a href="/wiki/Khalid_ibn_al-Walid" title="Khalid ibn al-Walid">Khalid ibn al-Walid</a>'s successful campaign which saw all of Iraq come under Arab rule within a year, with the exception of the Sassanid Empire's capital, <a href="/wiki/Ctesiphon" title="Ctesiphon">Ctesiphon</a>. By the end of 638, the Muslims had conquered all of the Western Sassanid provinces (including modern Iraq), and the last Sassanid Emperor, <a href="/wiki/Yazdegerd_III" title="Yazdegerd III">Yazdegerd III</a>, had fled to central and then northern Persia, where he was killed in 651.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Islamic expansions constituted the largest of the Semitic expansions in history. These new arrivals established two new garrison cities, at <a href="/wiki/Kufa" title="Kufa">Kufa</a>, near ancient <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a> in the south and established <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> in these cities, while the north remained largely <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> and Christian in character.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> built the city of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> along the Tigris in the 8th century as its capital, and the city became the leading metropolis of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world">Arab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a>. Baghdad was the largest <a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multicultural</a> <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, peaking at a population of more than a million,<a href="#cite_note-75">[72]</a> and was the centre of learning during the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age">Islamic Golden Age</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongols</a> destroyed the city and burned its library during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Baghdad (1258)">siege of Baghdad</a> in the 13th century.<a href="#cite_note-76">[73]</a> In 1257, <a href="/wiki/Hulagu_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Hulagu Khan">Hulagu Khan</a> besieged Baghdad, sacked the city and massacred many of the inhabitants.<a href="#cite_note-77">[74]</a> Estimates of the number of dead range from 200,000 to a million.<a href="#cite_note-78">[75]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bagdad1258.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Bagdad1258.jpg/250px-Bagdad1258.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Bagdad1258.jpg/330px-Bagdad1258.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Bagdad1258.jpg/500px-Bagdad1258.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1969" data-file-height="1478" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Baghdad (1258)">The siege of Baghdad</a> by the Mongols</figcaption></figure> The Mongols destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad's <a href="/wiki/House_of_Wisdom" title="House of Wisdom">House of Wisdom</a>. The city has never regained its previous pre-eminence as a major centre of culture and influence. Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the <a href="/wiki/Irrigation" title="Irrigation">irrigation</a> infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia. Other historians point to <a href="/wiki/Soil_salination" class="mw-redirect" title="Soil salination">soil salination</a> as the culprit in the decline in agriculture.<a href="#cite_note-79">[76]</a> The mid-14th-century <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> ravaged much of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic world">Islamic world</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> The best estimate for the Middle East is a death rate of roughly one-third.<a href="#cite_note-81">[78]</a> In 1401, a warlord of Mongol descent, <a href="/wiki/Tamerlane" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamerlane">Tamerlane</a> (Timur Lenk), invaded Iraq. After the capture of Baghdad, 20,000 of its citizens were massacred.<a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> Timur also conducted massacres of the indigenous <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a> population, hitherto still the majority population in northern Mesopotamia, and it was during this time that the ancient Assyrian city of <a href="/wiki/Assur" title="Assur">Assur</a> was finally abandoned.<a href="#cite_note-83">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_modern">Early modern</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Portuguese%E2%80%93Safavid_wars" title="Portuguese–Safavid wars">Portuguese–Safavid wars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Portuguese_conflicts_(1538%E2%80%931560)" title="Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)">Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ottoman-Portuguese_conflicts_(1580-1589)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1580-1589)">Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1580-1589)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Safavid_Iran_(1501%E2%80%931736).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg/220px-Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg/330px-Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg/440px-Map_of_Safavid_Iran_%281501%E2%80%931736%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1088" data-file-height="713" /></a><figcaption>Map of Safavid Iran (1501–1736)</figcaption></figure> During the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sheep_Turkmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Sheep Turkmen">Black Sheep Turkmen</a> ruled the area now known as Iraq. In 1466, the <a href="/wiki/White_Sheep_Turkmen" class="mw-redirect" title="White Sheep Turkmen">White Sheep Turkmen</a> took control. From 1508, as with all territories of the former White Sheep Turkmen, Iraq fell into the hands of the Iranian <a href="/wiki/Safavids" class="mw-redirect" title="Safavids">Safavids</a>. With the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Zuhab" title="Treaty of Zuhab">Treaty of Zuhab</a> in 1639, most of the territory of present-day Iraq came under the control of Ottoman Empire as the <a href="/wiki/Eyalet_of_Baghdad" class="mw-redirect" title="Eyalet of Baghdad">eyalet of Baghdad</a> as a result of <a href="/wiki/Ottoman-Persian_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman-Persian Wars">wars</a> with the neighbouring rival, <a href="/wiki/Safavid_dynasty" title="Safavid dynasty">Safavid Iran</a>. Throughout most of the period of Ottoman rule (1533–1918), the territory of present-day Iraq was a battle zone between the rival regional empires and tribal alliances. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iraq_1624.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Iraq_1624.png/250px-Iraq_1624.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Iraq_1624.png/330px-Iraq_1624.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Iraq_1624.png/500px-Iraq_1624.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="815" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> protectorate of Iraq and Kuwait in the 17th century. Persian -Portuguese war of 1624<a href="#cite_note-84">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-Toprak2-85">[82]</a></figcaption></figure> In 1523, the Portuguese commanded by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ant%C3%B3nio_Tenreiro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="António Tenreiro (page does not exist)">António Tenreiro</a> crossed from Aleppo to <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a> trying to make alliances with local lords in the name of the <a href="/wiki/John_III_of_Portugal" title="John III of Portugal">Portuguese king</a>.<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> In 1550, the local kingdom of Basra and tribal rulers relied on the Portuguese against the Ottomans, after which the Portuguese threatened several times to invoke an invasion and conquest of Basra. From 1595, the Portuguese acted as military protectors of Basra,<a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a> and in 1624 they helped the Ottoman pasha of Basra to repel a Persian invasion. The Portuguese were granted a share of customs revenue and exemption from tolls. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631,_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg/250px-Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg/330px-Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg/500px-Conquest_of_Mosul_by_Mustafa_Pasha_in_1631%2C_a_Turkish_soldier_in_the_foreground_holding_a_severed_head.jpg 2x" data-file-width="892" data-file-height="590" /></a><figcaption>Conquest of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> (Nineveh) by <a href="/wiki/Kara_Mustafa_Pasha" title="Kara Mustafa Pasha">Mustafa Pasha</a> in 1631, a Turkish soldier in the foreground holding a severed head. L., C. (Stecher), 1631–1650.</figcaption></figure> From approximately 1625 to 1668, Basra and the Delta marshes were in the hands of local chiefs independent of the Ottoman administration in Baghdad.<a href="#cite_note-Toprak2-85">[82]</a> In the 17th century, the frequent conflicts with the Safavids had sapped the strength of the Ottoman Empire and had weakened its control over its provinces. The nomadic population swelled with the influx of <a href="/wiki/Bedouin" title="Bedouin">bedouins</a> from <a href="/wiki/Najd" title="Najd">Najd</a>. Bedouin raids on settled areas became impossible to curb.<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> During the years 1747–1831, Iraq was ruled by a <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_dynasty_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk dynasty of Iraq">Mamluk dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Georgian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian people">Georgian</a><a href="#cite_note-bbs-89">[86]</a> origin who succeeded in obtaining autonomy from the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Porte" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Porte">Ottoman Porte</a>, suppressed tribal revolts, curbed the power of the <a href="/wiki/Janissaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Janissaries">Janissaries</a>, restored order and introduced a programme of modernisation of economy and military. In 1802, <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabis</a> from Najd <a href="/wiki/Wahhabi_sack_of_Karbala" title="Wahhabi sack of Karbala">attacked Karbala in Iraq</a>, killing up to 5,000 people and plundering the <a href="/wiki/Imam_Husayn_Shrine" class="mw-redirect" title="Imam Husayn Shrine">Imam Husayn Shrine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[87]</a> In 1831, the Ottomans managed to overthrow the Mamluk regime and imposed their direct control over Iraq. The population of Iraq, estimated at 30 million in 800 AD, was only 5 million at the start of the 20th century. By the 19th century, Baghdad emerged as a leading center for Jewish learning.<a href="#cite_note-auto6-91">[88]</a> The achievements of the Ottoman reforms in the 19th century, including the enactment of constitutions in 1876 and 1908, were beneficial to the people, laying the foundation for modern constitutional thought.<a href="#cite_note-:03-92">[89]</a> Despite challenges faced during these reforms, they represented a sophisticated expression of reformation, attempting to modernize society by introducing new concepts like the nation-state, citizenship, representation, voting, civic freedoms, separation of powers, and accountability.<a href="#cite_note-:03-92">[89]</a> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the Ottomans sided with <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Central_Powers" title="Central Powers">Central Powers</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_campaign" title="Mesopotamian campaign">Mesopotamian campaign</a> against the Central Powers, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> forces invaded the country and initially suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kut" title="Siege of Kut">Siege of Kut</a> (1915–1916). However, the British began to gain the upper hand, and were further aided by the support of local <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Iraq" title="Assyrians in Iraq">Assyrians</a>. In 1916, the British and French made a plan for the post-war division of <a href="/wiki/West_Asia" title="West Asia">West Asia</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Sykes-Picot_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Sykes-Picot Agreement">Sykes-Picot Agreement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-93">[90]</a> British forces regrouped and <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Baghdad_(1917)" title="Fall of Baghdad (1917)">captured Baghdad</a> in 1917, and defeated the Ottomans. An armistice was signed in 1918. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kingdom_of_Iraq:_1921–1958">Kingdom of Iraq: 1921–1958</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg/180px-King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg/271px-King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg/360px-King_Faisal_I_of_Syria_with_King_Abdul-Aziz_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_the_mid-1920s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="1176" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq" title="Faisal I of Iraq">King Faisal</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Saud" title="Ibn Saud">Ibn Saud</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, 1920s</figcaption></figure> Iraq's modern history began in the wake of World War I, as the region emerged from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Arab forces, inspired by the promise of independence, had helped dismantle the Ottoman hold on the Middle East, but the dream of a united, sovereign Arab state was soon dashed.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Despite agreements made with <a href="/wiki/Hussein_ibn_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hussein ibn Ali">Hussein ibn Ali</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sharif_of_Mecca" title="Sharif of Mecca">Sharif of Makkah</a>, the European powers had different plans for the region. Following the British withdrawal of support for a <a href="/wiki/Arab_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab state">unified Arab state</a>, Hussein's son, <a href="/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq" title="Faisal I of Iraq">Faisal</a>, briefly declared the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Syria">Kingdom of Syria</a> in 1920, encompassing parts of what are now <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palestine" title="Palestine">Palestine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> However, the kingdom was short-lived, crushed by local opposition and the military might of France, which had been granted a <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandatory Syria">mandate over Syria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nouri_Al-Saeed,_1950s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg/170px-Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg/255px-Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg/340px-Nouri_Al-Saeed%2C_1950s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="746" data-file-height="921" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nuri_al-Said" title="Nuri al-Said">Nuri Pasha</a> served eight terms as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">prime minister</a></figcaption></figure>In Iraq, under British mandate, tensions were rising as local forces increasingly resisted foreign control.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Revolt" title="Iraqi Revolt">rebellion erupted</a>, challenging British authority, and the need for a new strategy became clear.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> In 1921, the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Conference_(1921)" title="Cairo Conference (1921)">Cairo Conference</a>, led by British officials including <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and <a href="/wiki/T._E._Lawrence" title="T. E. Lawrence">T. E. Lawrence</a>, decided that Faisal, now exiled in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, would become the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Iraq">king of Iraq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> This decision was seen as a way to maintain British influence in the region while placating local demands for leadership.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Upon his coronation, he focused on unifying a land formerly divided into three <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_provinces" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman provinces">Ottoman provinces</a>—<a href="/wiki/Mosul_Province,_Ottoman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosul Province, Ottoman Empire">Mosul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_Province,_Ottoman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Baghdad Province, Ottoman Empire">Baghdad</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Basra_vilayet" title="Basra vilayet">Basra</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> He worked hard to gain the support of Iraq's diverse population, including both <a href="/wiki/Sunnis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunnis">Sunnis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shiites" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiites">Shiites</a>, and paid special attention to the country's Shiite communities, symbolically choosing the date of his coronation to coincide with <a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Ghadir" title="Eid al-Ghadir">Eid al-Ghadeer</a>, a key day for Shiite Muslims.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> His reign laid the foundations of modern Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Faisal worked to establish key state institutions.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> His education reforms included the founding of <a href="/wiki/Ahl_al-Bayt_University" title="Ahl al-Bayt University">Ahl al-Bayt University</a> in Baghdad, and he encouraged the migration of Syrian exiles to Iraq to serve as doctors and educators.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Faisal also envisioned infrastructural links between Iraq, Syria, and <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan" title="Emirate of Transjordan">Jordan</a>, including plans for a railway and an <a href="/wiki/Kirkuk%E2%80%93Haifa_oil_pipeline" title="Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline">oil pipeline to the Mediterranean</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Although Faisal succeeded in securing greater autonomy for Iraq, British influence remained strong, particularly in the oil industry.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> In 1930, <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_Treaty_of_1930" title="Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930">Iraq signed a treaty with Britain</a> that gave the country a measure of political independence while maintaining British control over key aspects, including military presence and oil rights.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> By 1932, Iraq gained formal independence, becoming a member of the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Faisal's reign was marked by his efforts to balance the pressures of external influence and internal demands for sovereignty.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> He was admired for his diplomatic skill and his commitment to steering Iraq towards self-determination.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Untimely, he died from a heart attack on 8 September 1933, leaving his son <a href="/wiki/Ghazi_of_Iraq" title="Ghazi of Iraq">Ghazi</a> to inherit the throne.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> King Ghazi's reign was brief and turbulent, due to numerous coup attempts.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Ghazi died in a motor accident in 1939, passing the throne to his young son, <a href="/wiki/Faisal_II" title="Faisal II">Faisal II</a>, who ascended to the throne at just 3 years old.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Faisal II's uncle, <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Ilah" title="Abd al-Ilah">Crown Prince Abdullah</a>, assumed regency until the young king came of age.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> On 1 April 1941, <a href="/wiki/Rashid_Ali_al-Gaylani" title="Rashid Ali al-Gaylani">Rashid Ali al-Gaylani</a> and members of the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Square_(Iraq)" title="Golden Square (Iraq)">Golden Square</a> staged a <a href="/wiki/1941_Iraqi_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1941 Iraqi coup d'état">coup d'état</a> and installed a <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">pro-German</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">pro-Italian</a> government.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> During the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Anglo-Iraqi War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> invaded Iraq for fear that the government might cut oil supplies to <a href="/wiki/Western_nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Western nations">Western nations</a> because of its links to the <a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis powers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> The war started on 2 May, and the British, together with loyal <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Levies" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian Levies">Assyrian Levies</a>, defeated the forces of Al-Gaylani, forcing an armistice on 31 May.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Regency of King Faisal II began in 1953.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> The hopes for Iraq's future under Faisal II were high, but the nation remained divided.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> Iraq's Sunni-dominated monarchy struggled to reconcile the diverse ethnic and religious groups, particularly the Shiite, Assyrian, Jewish and Kurdish populations, who felt marginalised.<a href="#cite_note-:02-94">[91]</a> In 1958, these tensions culminated in a military coup, inspired by the revolutionary wave sweeping across the Arab world, particularly in <a href="/wiki/1952_Egyptian_revolution" title="1952 Egyptian revolution">Egypt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Republic_and_Ba'athist_Iraq">Republic and Ba'athist Iraq</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Republic_(1958%E2%80%931968)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)">Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ba%27athist_Iraq" title="Ba'athist Iraq">Ba'athist Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arif_bath.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Arif_bath.jpg/250px-Arif_bath.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Arif_bath.jpg/330px-Arif_bath.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Arif_bath.jpg 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="232" /></a><figcaption>Leaders of the revolution in Iraq, including <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Salam_Arif" title="Abdul Salam Arif">Abd as-Salam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Karim_Qasim" title="Abdul-Karim Qasim">Abdal-Karim Qasim</a></figcaption></figure> A coup d'état known as the <a href="/wiki/14_July_Revolution" title="14 July Revolution">14 July Revolution</a> in 1958 was led by the Brigadier General and <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_nationalism" title="Iraqi nationalism">nationalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Karim_Qasim" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Karim Qasim">Abd al-Karim Qasim</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> This revolt was strongly anti-imperial and anti-monarchical in nature and had strong socialist elements.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> King <a href="/wiki/Faysal_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Faysal II">Faisal II</a>, Prince <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Ilah" title="Abd al-Ilah">Abd al-Ilah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nuri_al-Sa%27id" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuri al-Sa'id">Nuri al-Sa'id</a>, along with the royal family were killed brutally.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> Qasim controlled Iraq through military rule and in 1958 he began a process of forcibly reducing surplus land owned by a few citizens and having the state redistribute the land.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> In 1959, <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Wahab_al-Shawaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf">Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf</a> led an uprising in Mosul against Qasim. The uprising was crushed by the government forces.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> Qasim claimed <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> as part of Iraq, when the former was granted independence in 1961.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> The United Kingdom deployed its army on <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Kuwait_border" title="Iraq–Kuwait border">Iraq–Kuwait border</a>, which forced Qasim to back down.<a href="#cite_note-:13-95">[92]</a> He was overthrown by the Ba'ath Party in <a href="/wiki/Ramadan_Revolution" title="Ramadan Revolution">February 1963 coup</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:14-96">[93]</a> However internal division within Ba'athist factions caused another coup in November, which brought Colonel Abdul Salam Arif to power.<a href="#cite_note-:14-96">[93]</a> The new regime recognised Kuwait's independence.<a href="#cite_note-:14-96">[93]</a> Iraq participated in the Six Day War in 1967, against Israel. After the latter's death in 1966, he was succeeded by his brother, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Arif" title="Abdul Rahman Arif">Abdul Rahman Arif</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:14-96">[93]</a> Under his rule, Iraq participated in the Six Day War in 1967.<a href="#cite_note-:14-96">[93]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg/180px-Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg/270px-Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg/360px-Saddam_Hussein_1974.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="832" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, was the president from 1979 until <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Saddam_Hussein" title="Capture of Saddam Hussein">his overthrow</a> in 2003</figcaption></figure> Arif was overthrown in the <a href="/wiki/17_July_Revolution" title="17 July Revolution">17 July Revolution</a> in 1968.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region">Ba'ath Party</a> came to power, with <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_al-Bakr" title="Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr">Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr</a> as the president of Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> However, the government gradually came under the control of <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, Iraq's then vice-president.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> Saddam sought to achieve stability between Iraq's ethnic and religious groups.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> The <a href="/wiki/First_Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_War" title="First Iraqi–Kurdish War">first Iraqi–Kurdish war</a> ended in 1970, after which a peace treaty was signed between Saddam and Barzani, granting autonomy to <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> He introduced free healthcare and education, nationalised oil, promoted women's rights and developed infrastructure.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> In 1974, the <a href="/wiki/Second_Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_War" title="Second Iraqi–Kurdish War">second Iraqi–Kurdish war</a> began and <a href="/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_Shatt_al-Arab_conflict" title="1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict">border clashes with Iran</a> took place on <a href="/wiki/Shatt_al-Arab" title="Shatt al-Arab">Shatt al-Arab</a>. Iran supported Kurdish militants.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1975_Algiers_Agreement" title="1975 Algiers Agreement">Algiers Agreement</a> signed in 1975 by <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Mohammad Reza Pahlavi</a> and Saddam resolved the dispute and Iran withdrew support for the Kurds, resulting in their defeat in the war.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> In 1973, Iraq participated in the <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a> against Israel, alongside <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> An attempt to ban an annual pilgrimage to Karbala caused an <a href="/wiki/1977_Shia_uprising_in_Iraq" title="1977 Shia uprising in Iraq">uprising by Shia Muslims across Iraq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> Another Shia uprising took place from 1979 to 1980, as a followup to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Revolution">Islamic Revolution</a> in Iran.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> On 16 July 1979, Saddam acceded to the presidency and chairmanship of the <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Command_Council_(Iraq)" title="Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq)">supreme executive body</a> in July 1979.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> Following months of cross-border raids with Iran, Saddam declared war on Iran in September 1980, initiating the <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a> (or First Persian Gulf War).<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> Taking advantage of the post-<a href="/wiki/Iranian_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian Revolution">Iranian Revolution</a> chaos in Iran, Iraq captured some territories in southwest Iran, but Iran recaptured all of the lost territories within two years, and for the next six years Iran was on the offensive.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Arab_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab countries">Sunni-led Arab countries</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War">United States supported Iraq throughout the war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> In 1981, Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor of Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> In midst of the war, between 1983 to 1986, Kurds led <a href="/wiki/1983%E2%80%931986_Kurdish_rebellions_in_Iraq" title="1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq">rebellion against the regime</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> In retaliation, the government-coordinated <a href="/wiki/Anfal_campaign" title="Anfal campaign">Anfal campaign</a> led to the killing of 50,000–100,000 civilians.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> During the war, Saddam extensively used <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program" title="Iraqi chemical weapons program">chemical weapons</a> against Iranians.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> The war, which ended in <a href="/wiki/Stalemate" title="Stalemate">stalemate</a> in 1988, killed between half a million and 1.5 million people.<a href="#cite_note-:15-97">[94]</a> Kuwait's refusal to waive Iraq's debt and reducing oil prices pushed Saddam to take military action against it.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> On 2 August 1990, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_invasion_of_Kuwait" title="Iraqi invasion of Kuwait">Iraqi forces invaded</a> and annexed Kuwait as its <a href="/wiki/Kuwait_Governorate" title="Kuwait Governorate">19th governorate</a>, starting the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> This led to military intervention by the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Gulf_War" title="Coalition of the Gulf War">US-led alliance</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> The coalition forces proceeded with a bombing campaign targeting military targets and then launched a 100-hour-long ground assault against Iraqi forces in southern Iraq and Kuwait.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> Iraq also attempted to invade Saudi Arabia and attacked Israel.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> Iraq's armed forces were devastated during the war.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> Sanctions were imposed on Iraq, following the invasion of Kuwait, which resulted in economic decline.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> After the end of the war in 1991, Iraqi Kurds and Shia Muslims in northern and southern Iraq led several <a href="/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings" title="1991 Iraqi uprisings">uprisings against the government</a>, but these were repressed.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> It is estimated that as many as 100,000 people, including many civilians, were killed.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> During the uprisings, the US, UK, Turkey and France, claiming authority under <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_688" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 688">UNSC Resolution 688</a>, established the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi no-fly zones">Iraqi no-fly zones</a> to protect Kurdish population from attacks. As a result autonomy was given to Kurds and the region fall out of control from the Iraqi government.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> A second rebellion by Shi'as emerged in in 1999, after the assassination of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Sadr_(jurist)" title="Muhammad al-Sadr (jurist)">Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdish_Civil_War" title="Iraqi Kurdish Civil War">Iraqi Kurdish Civil War</a> from 1994 to 1997, around 40,000 fighters and civilians were killed and the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Regional_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdistan Regional Government">Kurdistan Regional Government</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ansar_al-Islam_in_Kurdistan" title="Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan">Ansar al-Islam</a> engaged in conflict, which would merge with the upcoming war.<a href="#cite_note-:6-98">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2003_invasion_and_war:_2003–2017">2003 invasion and war: 2003–2017</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Iraq_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)">Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>, and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Iraq_(2011%E2%80%93present)" title="History of Iraq (2011–present)">History of Iraq (2011–present)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SaddamStatue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SaddamStatue.jpg/220px-SaddamStatue.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SaddamStatue.jpg/330px-SaddamStatue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/SaddamStatue.jpg/440px-SaddamStatue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="1072" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_statue_destruction" title="Saddam Hussein statue destruction">Statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled</a> in Baghdad, 09 April 2003</figcaption></figure> Following the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">George W. Bush administration</a> began planning the overthrow of Saddam's government. In 2002, the U.S Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_the_Use_of_United_States_Armed_Forces_Against_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq">joint resolution to</a> authorize the use of its military against Iraq and the UN Security Council passed <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1441" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441">UNSCR 1441</a>. On 20 March 2003, a United States-organized coalition of its allies <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invaded Iraq</a>, under the pretext that Iraq had failed to abandon its <a href="/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iraq and weapons of mass destruction">weapons of mass destruction program</a>. Following the invasion, the U.S established the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority">Coalition Provisional Authority</a> to govern Iraq. In May 2003 <a href="/wiki/L._Paul_Bremer" class="mw-redirect" title="L. Paul Bremer">L. Paul Bremer</a>, the chief executive of the CPA, issued orders to <a href="/wiki/De-Ba%27athification" title="De-Ba'athification">exclude Ba'ath Party members</a> from the new Iraqi government and to <a href="/wiki/CPA_Order_2" class="mw-redirect" title="CPA Order 2">disband the Iraqi Army</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Pfiffner-99">[96]</a> The decision dissolved the largely Sunni Iraqi Army and excluded many of the country's former government officials,<a href="#cite_note-100">[97]</a> including 40,000 school teachers who had joined it simply to keep their jobs,<a href="#cite_note-Pfiffner-99">[96]</a> helping to bring about a chaotic post-invasion environment.<a href="#cite_note-101">[98]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg/220px-U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg/330px-U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg/440px-U.S._Army_M1A2_Abrams_Iraq_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>U.S. Army <a href="/wiki/M1A2_Abrams" class="mw-redirect" title="M1A2 Abrams">M1A2 Abrams</a> tanks patrol the streets of <a href="/wiki/Tal_Afar" title="Tal Afar">Tal Afar</a>in February 2005.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%9306)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (2003–06)">An insurgency</a> against the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">U.S-led coalition</a>-rule of Iraq began in summer within elements of the former Iraqi secret police and army, who formed guerrilla units. In fall 2003, <a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihadist</a> groups began targeting coalition forces. Various Sunni militias were created, for example <a href="/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad" title="Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad">Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi" title="Abu Musab al-Zarqawi">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a>. The insurgency included intense inter-ethnic violence between Sunnis and Shias.<a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-102">[99]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse">Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse</a> scandal came to light in late 2003. The <a href="/wiki/Mahdi_Army" title="Mahdi Army">Mahdi Army</a>—a Shia militia created in the summer of 2003 by <a href="/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr" title="Muqtada al-Sadr">Muqtada al-Sadr</a>—began to fight Coalition forces in April 2004.<a href="#cite_note-mehdi-103">[100]</a> 2004 saw Sunni and Shia militants fighting against each other, the new <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Interim_Government" title="Iraqi Interim Government">Iraqi Interim Government</a> installed in June 2004, and against Coalition forces, as well as the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah" title="First Battle of Fallujah">First Battle of Fallujah</a> in April and <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah" title="Second Battle of Fallujah">Second Battle of Fallujah</a> in November. The Mahdi army would kidnap Sunni civilians as part of a genocide.<a href="#cite_note-:70-104">[101]</a> Insurgent attacks increased in 2005.<a href="#cite_note-:39-105">[102]</a> During 2006, fighting continued and reached its highest levels of violence, more <a href="/wiki/Haditha_killings" class="mw-redirect" title="Haditha killings">war crimes scandals</a> were made public, <a href="/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi" title="Abu Musab al-Zarqawi">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a> the leader of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq" title="Al-Qaeda in Iraq">Al-Qaeda in Iraq</a> was killed by US forces and Iraq's former dictator <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> was hanged for <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:40-106">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-:41-107">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-:43-108">[105]</a> In 2008, <a href="/wiki/Iraq_spring_fighting_of_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraq spring fighting of 2008">fighting continued</a> and Iraq's newly trained armed forces launched attacks against militants. Crime and violence initially spiked in the months following <a href="/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement" title="U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement">the US withdrawal from cities in mid-2009</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Associated_Press_and_Yahoo.com-109">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-:44-110">[107]</a> but despite the initial increase in violence, in November 2009, Iraqi <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_(Iraq)" title="Ministry of Interior (Iraq)">Interior Ministry</a> officials reported that the civilian death toll in Iraq fell to its lowest level since the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:45-111">[108]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">withdrawal of US troops</a> in 2011, the insurgency continued and Iraq suffered from political instability. Claim of WMDs and Saddam's links with Al-Qaeda was based on documents provided by the <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> and the British government that were later <a href="/wiki/Duelfer_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="Duelfer Report">found to be unreliable</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:46-112">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-:47-113">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-:48-114">[111]</a> It has been argued though that the U.S. was actually pursuing national objectives to expand their spheres of power.<a href="#cite_note-:49-115">[112]</a> The war in Iraq has resulted in <a href="/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War" title="Casualties of the Iraq War">between 151,000 and 1.2 million Iraqis being killed</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:50-116">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-:51-117">[114]</a> In February 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a> protests <a href="/wiki/2011_Iraqi_protests" title="2011 Iraqi protests">spread to Iraq</a>;<a href="#cite_note-:52-118">[115]</a> but the initial protests did not topple the government. The <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_National_Movement" title="Iraqi National Movement">Iraqi National Movement</a> boycotted Parliament for several weeks in late 2011 and early 2012, claiming that the Shiite-dominated government was striving to sideline Sunnis. In 2012 and 2013, levels of violence increased and armed groups inside Iraq were increasingly galvanised by the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a>. Both Sunnis and Shias crossed the border to fight in Syria.<a href="#cite_note-Kurd-Shiite-Sunni-Split-119">[116]</a> Shi'as supported the government of Bashar al-Assad, while Sunnis supported opposition. In December 2012, Sunni Arabs <a href="/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Iraqi_protests" title="2012–2013 Iraqi protests">protested</a> against the government, who they claimed marginalised them.<a href="#cite_note-:53-120">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-:54-121">[118]</a> During 2013, Sunni militant groups stepped up attacks targeting the Iraq's population in an attempt to undermine confidence in the <a href="/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki" title="Nouri al-Maliki">Nouri al-Maliki</a>-led government.<a href="#cite_note-latimes2701-122">[119]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Syrian,_Iraqi,_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg/220px-Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg/330px-Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg/440px-Syrian%2C_Iraqi%2C_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1640" data-file-height="1238" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_conflict" title="Iraqi conflict">Iraqi conflict</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war_spillover_in_Lebanon" title="Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon">Lebanese insurgency</a></figcaption></figure> In 2014, Sunni insurgents belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> terrorist group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like <a href="/wiki/Tikrit" title="Tikrit">Tikrit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fallujah" title="Fallujah">Fallujah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> creating hundreds of thousands of <a href="/wiki/Internally_displaced_persons" class="mw-redirect" title="Internally displaced persons">internally displaced persons</a> amid reports of atrocities by ISIL fighters.<a href="#cite_note-:55-123">[120]</a> On 4 June 2014, the insurgents began their efforts to capture <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a>. The Iraqi army officially had 30,000 soldiers and another 30,000 federal police stationed in the city, facing a 1,500-member attacking force. The Iraqi forces' actual numbers were much lower due to "<a href="/wiki/Ghost_soldiers" title="Ghost soldiers">ghost soldiers</a>", severely reducing combat ability.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera-ghost-124">[121]</a> After six days of combat and massive desertions, Iraqi soldiers received orders to retreat. The city of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> fell under ISIL's control. An estimated 500,000 civilians fled from the city. By late June, the government had lost control of its borders with both <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:56-125">[122]</a> al-Maliki called for a national <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a> on 10 June following the attack on Mosul. However, despite the security crisis, <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Iraq's parliament</a> did not allow Maliki to declare a state of emergency; many legislators boycotted the session because they opposed expanding the prime minister's powers.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-126">[123]</a> After an inconclusive election in April 2014, Nouri al-Maliki served as caretaker-Prime-Minister.<a href="#cite_note-guar11-8-14-127">[124]</a> On 11 August, Iraq's highest court ruled that PM Maliki's bloc was the largest in parliament, meaning Maliki could stay Prime Minister.<a href="#cite_note-guar11-8-14-127">[124]</a> By 13 August, however, the president had tasked <a href="/wiki/Haider_al-Abadi" title="Haider al-Abadi">Haider al-Abadi</a> with forming a new government, and the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and some Iraqi politicians expressed their wish for a new leadership in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:57-128">[125]</a> On 14 August, Maliki stepped down.<a href="#cite_note-:58-129">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-:59-130">[127]</a> On 8 September 2014, <a href="/wiki/Haider_al-Abadi" title="Haider al-Abadi">Haider al-Abadi</a> became prime minister.<a href="#cite_note-:60-131">[128]</a> Abadi promised to stamp out corruption and ease sectarian tensions.<a href="#cite_note-BBC30Apr16-132">[129]</a> Intermittent conflict between Sunni, <a href="/wiki/Shiite" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiite">Shia</a> and Kurdish factions has led to increasing debate about the splitting of Iraq into three autonomous regions: Kurdistan in the northeast, a Sunni state in the west and a Shia state in the southeast.<a href="#cite_note-:61-133">[130]</a> In response to rapid territorial gains made by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> in early 2014, and its universally-condemned <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_captives_by_ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="Killing of captives by ISIL">executions</a> and reported <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant#Human_rights_abuses" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">human rights abuses</a>, many states <a href="/wiki/International_military_intervention_against_ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="International military intervention against ISIL">began to intervene</a> against it in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017)" title="War in Iraq (2013–2017)">War in Iraq (2013–2017)</a>. ISIL began losing ground in both Iraq and Syria.<a href="#cite_note-:63-134">[131]</a> Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in Iraq in ISIL-linked violence.<a href="#cite_note-:64-135">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-:65-136">[133]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Genocide_of_Yazidis_by_ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL">genocide of Yazidis by ISIL</a> has led to the expulsion, flight and effective exile of the <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:66-137">[134]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2016_Karrada_bombing" title="2016 Karrada bombing">2016 Karrada bombing</a> killed nearly 400 civilians and injured hundreds more.<a href="#cite_note-:67-138">[135]</a> On 17 March 2017, a US-led coalition <a href="/wiki/2017_Mosul_airstrike" title="2017 Mosul airstrike">airstrike in Mosul</a> killed more than 200 civilians.<a href="#cite_note-:68-139">[136]</a> By December 2017, ISIL had no remaining territory in Iraq, following the <a href="/wiki/2017_Western_Iraq_campaign" title="2017 Western Iraq campaign">2017 Western Iraq campaign</a>.<a href="#cite_note-victory_parade-140">[137]</a> On 9 December 2017, then-<a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Iraqi Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Haider_al-Abadi" title="Haider al-Abadi">Haider al-Abadi</a> declared victory over <a href="/wiki/ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIL">ISIL</a> and announced full liberation of borders with Syria from Islamic State militants.<a href="#cite_note-:69-141">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war">Post-war</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg/220px-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg/330px-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg/440px-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Iraqi_protests" title="2019–2021 Iraqi protests">Protest in Baghdad</a> in 2019, were the largest incident of <a href="/wiki/Civil_unrest" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil unrest">civil unrest</a> Iraq has experienced since the 2003 invasion.<a href="#cite_note-142">[139]</a></figcaption></figure> In September 2017, a <a href="/wiki/2017_Kurdistan_Region_independence_referendum" title="2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum">referendum</a> was held regarding <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_nationalism" title="Kurdish nationalism">Kurdish independence</a> in Iraq. 92% of Iraqi Kurds voted in favor of independence.<a href="#cite_note-143">[140]</a> The referendum was regarded as illegal by the federal government.<a href="#cite_note-144">[141]</a> In March 2018, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> launched <a href="/wiki/Operation_Tigris_Shield" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Tigris Shield">military operations</a> to eliminate active Kurdish separatist fighters in the far north of the country.<a href="#cite_note-145">[142]</a> Serious civil unrest rocked the country beginning in Baghdad and Najaf in July 2018 and spreading to other provinces in <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%932018_Iraqi_protests" title="2015–2018 Iraqi protests">September</a> as rallies to protest corruption, unemployment, and public service failures turned violent.<a href="#cite_note-146">[143]</a> <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Iraqi_protests" title="2019–2021 Iraqi protests">Protests</a> started again on 1 October 2019, against corruption, unemployment and inefficient public services, before they escalated into calls to overthrow the administration and to stop <a href="/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)">Iranian intervention</a>. The government at times reacted harshly, resulting in over 500 deaths by 12 December 2019. On 27 December 2019, the <a href="/wiki/K-1_Air_Base_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="K-1 Air Base attack">K-1 Air Base was attacked</a> by more than 30 rockets, killing a U.S. civilian contractor and injuring others. The U.S. blamed the Iranian-backed <a href="/wiki/Kata%27ib_Hezbollah" title="Kata'ib Hezbollah">Kata'ib Hezbollah</a> militia. Later that month, the U.S. <a href="/wiki/December_2019_United_States_airstrikes_in_Iraq_and_Syria" title="December 2019 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria">bombed five Kata'ib Hezbollah militia's positions in Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>. On 31 December, dozens of Iraqi Shia militiamen and their supporters marched into the <a href="/wiki/Green_Zone" title="Green Zone">Green Zone</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_the_United_States_embassy_in_Baghdad" title="Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad">surrounded the U.S. embassy</a>. Three days later, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran, the U.S. <a href="/wiki/2020_Baghdad_International_Airport_airstrike" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike">launched a drone strike on a convoy traveling near Baghdad Airport</a>, killing <a href="/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani" title="Qasem Soleimani">Qasem Soleimani</a>, Iranian major-general and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps</a> (IRGC) and <a href="/wiki/Quds_Force" title="Quds Force">Quds Force</a> commander, the second most powerful person of Iran;<a href="#cite_note-nrc3Jan-147">[144]</a> <a href="/wiki/Abu_Mahdi_al-Muhandis" title="Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis">Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis</a>, deputy commander of Iraq's <a href="/wiki/Popular_Mobilization_Forces" title="Popular Mobilization Forces">Popular Mobilization Forces</a> (PMF or PMU); four senior Iranian officers; and four Iraqi officers. Following <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Iraqi_protests" title="2019–2021 Iraqi protests">months of protests</a> that broke out across Iraq in October 2019 and the resignation of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Adil_Abdul-Mahdi" title="Adil Abdul-Mahdi">Adel Abdul Mahdi</a> and his cabinet, <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Al-Kadhimi" title="Mustafa Al-Kadhimi">Mustafa al-Kadhimi</a> became a leading contender for the Premiership.<a href="#cite_note-148">[145]</a> On 9 April 2020, he was named by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iraq" title="President of Iraq">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Barham_Salih" title="Barham Salih">Barham Salih</a> as <a href="/wiki/Prime_minister-designate" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime minister-designate">prime minister-designate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-149">[146]</a> On 30 November 2021, the political bloc led by Shia leader <a href="/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr" title="Muqtada al-Sadr">Muqtada al-Sadr</a> was confirmed the winner of the October <a href="/wiki/2021_Iraqi_parliamentary_election" title="2021 Iraqi parliamentary election">election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-150">[147]</a> <a href="/wiki/2022_Iraqi_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Iraqi political crisis">A period of political crisis and near-deadlock</a> of eleven months followed.<a href="#cite_note-151">[148]</a> On 27 July 2022, the parliament building was <a href="/wiki/2022_Iraq_parliament_attack" title="2022 Iraq parliament attack">stormed by protesters</a> for the second time in a week.<a href="#cite_note-152">[149]</a> Corruption remains endemic throughout all levels of governance while US-endorsed sectarian political system has driven increased levels of violent terrorism and sectarian conflicts within Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-153">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[151]</a> Climate change is driving wide-scale droughts across the country while water reserves are rapidly depleting.<a href="#cite_note-155">[152]</a> The country has been in a <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Iraq" title="Climate change in Iraq">prolonged drought</a> since 2020 and experienced its second-driest season in the past four decades in 2021. Water flows in the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> are down between 30 and 40%. Half of the Iraq's farmland is at risk of <a href="/wiki/Desertification" title="Desertification">desertification</a>.<a href="#cite_note-156">[153]</a> Nearly 40% of Iraq "has been overtaken by blowing desert sands that claim tens of thousands of acres of arable land every year."<a href="#cite_note-157">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Iraq" title="Geography of Iraq">Geography of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trees_in_Karbala.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Trees_in_Karbala.jpg/220px-Trees_in_Karbala.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Trees_in_Karbala.jpg/330px-Trees_in_Karbala.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Trees_in_Karbala.jpg/440px-Trees_in_Karbala.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="495" /></a><figcaption>Karbala is home to world's largest oasis</figcaption></figure> Iraq lies between latitudes <a href="/wiki/29th_parallel_north" title="29th parallel north">29°</a> and <a href="/wiki/38th_parallel_north" title="38th parallel north">38° N</a>, and longitudes <a href="/wiki/39th_meridian_east" title="39th meridian east">39°</a> and <a href="/wiki/49th_meridian_east" title="49th meridian east">49° E</a> (a small area lies west of 39°). Spanning 437,072 km2 (168,754 sq mi), it is the 58th-largest country in the world. It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Turkey_border" title="Iraq–Turkey border">the north</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_border" title="Iraq–Saudi Arabia border">south</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_border" title="Iran–Iraq border">the east</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Syria_border" title="Iraq–Syria border">the west</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Kuwait_border" title="Iraq–Kuwait border">southeast</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Jordan_border" title="Iraq–Jordan border">the southwest</a>. It has a coastline measuring 58 km (36 mi) on the northern <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-158">[155]</a> Further north, but below the main headwaters only, the country easily encompasses the <a href="/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system" title="Tigris–Euphrates river system">Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain</a>. Two major rivers, the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a>, run south through Iraq and into the <a href="/wiki/Shatt_al-Arab" title="Shatt al-Arab">Shatt al-Arab</a>, thence the Persian Gulf. Broadly flanking this estuary (known as arvandrūd: اروندرود among Iranians) are marshlands, semi-agricultural. Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plains" class="mw-redirect" title="Alluvial plains">alluvial plains</a>, as the rivers carry about 60,000,000 m3 (78,000,000 cu yd) of <a href="/wiki/Silt" title="Silt">silt</a> annually to the <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">delta</a>. The central part of the south, which slightly tapers in favour of other countries, is natural vegetation marsh mixed with rice paddies and is humid, relative to the rest of the plains.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Iraq has the northwestern end of the <a href="/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" title="Zagros Mountains">Zagros mountain range</a> and the eastern part of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Desert" title="Syrian Desert">Syrian Desert</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Around the city of Karbala, is home to world's largest oasis of palm trees.<a href="#cite_note-:35-159">[156]</a> In 2023, it surpassed Saudi Arabia's <a href="/wiki/Al-Ahsa_Oasis" title="Al-Ahsa Oasis">Al-Ahsa Oasis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:35-159">[156]</a> Rocky deserts cover about 40 percent of Iraq. Another 30 percent is mountainous with bitterly cold winters. The north of the country is mostly composed of mountains; the highest point being at 3,611 m (11,847 ft). Iraq is home to seven terrestrial ecoregions: <a href="/wiki/Zagros_Mountains_forest_steppe" title="Zagros Mountains forest steppe">Zagros Mountains forest steppe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middle_East_steppe" title="Middle East steppe">Middle East steppe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes" title="Mesopotamian Marshes">Mesopotamian Marshes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Mediterranean_conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf_forests" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests">Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Desert" title="Arabian Desert">Arabian Desert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_shrub_desert" title="Mesopotamian shrub desert">Mesopotamian shrub desert</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Iran_Nubo-Sindian_desert_and_semi-desert" class="mw-redirect" title="South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert">South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DinersteinOlson2017-160">[157]</a><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 151.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 149.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheekha_Dar_seen_from_Halgurd.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cheekha Dar, highest point in Iraq"><img alt="Cheekha Dar, highest point in Iraq" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Cheekha_Dar_seen_from_Halgurd.jpg/250px-Cheekha_Dar_seen_from_Halgurd.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Cheekha_Dar_seen_from_Halgurd.jpg/500px-Cheekha_Dar_seen_from_Halgurd.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="3472" data-file-height="2794" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Cheekha_Dar" title="Cheekha Dar">Cheekha Dar</a>, highest point in Iraq</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Piran,.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Piran and Mount Piran seen from Kure Hure summit"><img alt="Piran and Mount Piran seen from Kure Hure summit" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Piran%2C.jpg/270px-Piran%2C.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Piran%2C.jpg/405px-Piran%2C.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Piran%2C.jpg/540px-Piran%2C.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Piran and Mount Piran seen from Kure Hure summit</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><a href="/wiki/File:20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A reservoir in the Samawah desert of Southern Iraq"><img alt="A reservoir in the Samawah desert of Southern Iraq" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg/330px-20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg/500px-20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg/960px-20160104-Lake_in_Samawa_desert_Iraq_0356.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5760" data-file-height="3840" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A reservoir in the <a href="/wiki/Samawah" title="Samawah">Samawah</a> desert of Southern Iraq</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 191.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 189.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Zagros_iraq.png" class="mw-file-description" title="A road through the Zagros Mountains"><img alt="A road through the Zagros Mountains" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Zagros_iraq.png/330px-Zagros_iraq.png" decoding="async" width="190" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Zagros_iraq.png/500px-Zagros_iraq.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Zagros_iraq.png/960px-Zagros_iraq.png 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2070" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A road through the <a href="/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" title="Zagros Mountains">Zagros Mountains</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Iraq#Climate" title="Geography of Iraq">Climate of Iraq</a></div> Much of Iraq has a hot <a href="/wiki/Arid" class="mw-redirect" title="Arid">arid</a> climate with <a href="/wiki/Subtropical" class="mw-redirect" title="Subtropical">subtropical</a> influence. Summer temperatures average above 40 °C (104 °F) for most of the country and frequently exceed 48 °C (118.4 °F). Winter temperatures infrequently exceed 15 °C (59.0 °F) with maxima roughly 5 to 10 °C (41.0 to 50.0 °F) and night-time lows 1 to 5 °C (33.8 to 41.0 °F). Typically, precipitation is low; most places receive less than 250 mm (9.8 in) annually, with maximum rainfall occurring during the winter months. Rainfall during the summer is rare, except in northern parts of the country. The northern mountainous regions have cold winters with occasional heavy snows, sometimes causing extensive flooding.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Iraq" title="Climate change in Iraq">Iraq is highly vulnerable to climate change</a>.<a href="#cite_note-161">[158]</a> The country is subject to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall, and suffers from increasing <a href="/wiki/Water_scarcity" title="Water scarcity">water scarcity</a> for a human population that rose tenfold between 1890 and 2010 and continues to rise.<a href="#cite_note-162">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-watercrisis-163">[160]</a> The country's electrical grid faces systemic pressures due to climate change, fuel shortages, and an increase in demand.<a href="#cite_note-nbcnews.com-164">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-DW-165">[162]</a> Corruption remains endemic throughout all levels of Iraqi governance while the political system has exacerbated sectarian conflict.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-166">[163]</a><a href="#cite_note-Karam-167">[164]</a> Climate change is driving wide-scale droughts across the country while water reserves are rapidly depleting.<a href="#cite_note-Lukas-168">[165]</a> The country has been in a <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Iraq" title="Climate change in Iraq">prolonged drought</a> since 2020 and experienced its second-driest season in the past four decades in 2021. Water flows in the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> are down between 30 and 40%. Half of the country's farmland is at risk of <a href="/wiki/Desertification" title="Desertification">desertification</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Rodgers-2023-169">[166]</a> Nearly 40% of Iraq "has been overtaken by blowing desert sands that claim tens of thousands of acres of arable land every year".<a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-170">[167]</a> However, in 2023, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Mohammed Shia al-Sudani</a> announced that government was working on a wider "Iraqi vision for climate action". The plan would include promoting clean and renewable energy, new irrigation and water treatment projects and reduced industrial gas flaring, he said. Sudani said Iraq was "moving forward to conclude contracts for constructing renewable energy power plants to provide one-third of our electricity demand by 2030". In addition, Iraq will plant 5 million trees across the country and will create green belts around cities to act as windbreaks against dust storms.<a href="#cite_note-171">[168]</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[169]</a> In the same year, Iraq and <a href="/wiki/TotalEnergies" title="TotalEnergies">TotalEnergies</a> signed a $27 billion energy deal that aims to increase oil production and boost the country's capacity to produce energy with four oil, gas and renewables projects. According to experts, the project will "accelerate Iraq's path to energy self-sufficiency and advance Iraq's collective climate change objectives".<a href="#cite_note-173">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[171]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biodiversity">Biodiversity</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_of_Iraq" title="Wildlife of Iraq">Wildlife of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg/250px-Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg/330px-Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg/500px-Asiatic_Lion_Cub.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4557" data-file-height="3038" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_lion" title="Asiatic lion">Asiatic lion</a> has remained a prominent symbol since ancient times</figcaption></figure> The wildlife of Iraq includes its <a href="/wiki/Flora" title="Flora">flora</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fauna" title="Fauna">fauna</a> and their natural <a href="/wiki/Habitats" class="mw-redirect" title="Habitats">habitats</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hatt1959-175">[172]</a> Iraq has multiple and diverse biomes which include the mountainous region in the north to the wet <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marshlands</a> along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, while western part of the country comprises mainly <a href="/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">desert</a> and some semi-arid regions. Many of Iraq's bird species were endangered, including seven of Iraq's <a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammal</a> <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> and 12 of its <a href="/wiki/Bird" title="Bird">bird</a> species. The <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes" title="Mesopotamian Marshes">Mesopotamian marches</a> in the middle and south are home to approximately 50 species of birds, and rare species of fish.<a href="#cite_note-Wildlife_Extra-176">[173]</a> At risk are some 50% of the world's <a href="/wiki/Marbled_teal" class="mw-redirect" title="Marbled teal">marbled teal</a> population that live in the marshes, along with 60% of the world's population of <a href="/wiki/Basra_reed-warbler" class="mw-redirect" title="Basra reed-warbler">Basra reed-warbler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wildlife_Extra-176">[173]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_lion" title="Asiatic lion">Asiatic lion</a>, in the present-day extinct in the region, has remained a prominent symbol of the country throughout history.<a href="#cite_note-Benjamin_Sass-177">[174]</a> <a href="/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_Marshes" title="Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes">Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes</a>, during the time of Saddam's government, caused there a significant drop in biological life.<a href="#cite_note-Med-O-Med-178">[175]</a> Since the 2003–2011, flow is restored and the ecosystem has begun to recover.<a href="#cite_note-Med-O-Med-178">[175]</a> Iraqi corals are some of the most extreme heat-tolerant as the seawater in this area ranges between 14 and 34 °C.<a href="#cite_note-sr-179">[176]</a> Aquatic or semi-aquatic wildlife occurs in and around these, the major lakes are <a href="/wiki/Lake_Habbaniyah" title="Lake Habbaniyah">Lake Habbaniyah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Milh" title="Lake Milh">Lake Milh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Qadisiyah" title="Lake Qadisiyah">Lake Qadisiyah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tharthar" title="Lake Tharthar">Lake Tharthar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Scott1995-180">[177]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_politics">Government and politics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" 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style="width:155px;max-width:155px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:195px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/153px-Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="153" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/230px-Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/306px-Abdul_Latif_Rashid_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="700" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Rashid" title="Abdul Latif Rashid">Abdul Latif Rashid</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iraq" title="President of Iraq">President</a> since 2022</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:173px;max-width:173px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:195px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_(54266610408)_(crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg/171px-Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="171" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg/257px-Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg/342px-Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_meets_Iraq_Prime_Minister_Al-Sudani_%2854266610408%29_%28crop%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1283" data-file-height="1463" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Mohammed al-Sudani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister</a> since 2022</div></div></div></div></div> The <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_Iraq" title="Federal government of Iraq">federal government of Iraq</a> is defined under the current <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Constitution</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_Iraq" title="Democracy in Iraq">democratic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federal</a> <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">parliamentary</a> <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republic</a>. The federal government is composed of the <a href="/wiki/Executive_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive branch">executive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legislative_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative branch">legislative</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Judicial_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Judicial branch">judicial</a> branches, as well as numerous independent commissions. Aside from the federal government, there are regions (made of one or more governorates), governorates, and districts within Iraq with jurisdiction over various matters as defined by law.<a href="#cite_note-Constitution-47">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-:12-181">[178]</a> The president is the head of state, the prime minister is the head of government, and the constitution provides for two deliberative bodies, the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives</a> and the Council of Union. The judiciary is free and independent of the executive and the legislature.<a href="#cite_note-:12-181">[178]</a><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg/220px-Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg/330px-Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg/440px-Baghdad_Convention_Center_inside.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives of Iraq</a> meeting at Baghdad</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/National_Alliance_(Iraq)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Alliance (Iraq)">National Alliance</a> is the main Shia parliamentary bloc, and was established as a result of a merger of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's <a href="/wiki/State_of_Law_Coalition" title="State of Law Coalition">State of Law Coalition</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_National_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi National Alliance">Iraqi National Alliance</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbc-gpi-182">[179]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_National_Movement" title="Iraqi National Movement">Iraqi National Movement</a> is led by <a href="/wiki/Iyad_Allawi" class="mw-redirect" title="Iyad Allawi">Iyad Allawi</a>, a secular Shia widely supported by Sunnis.<a href="#cite_note-bbc-gpi-182">[179]</a> The party has a more consistent anti-sectarian perspective than most of its rivals.<a href="#cite_note-bbc-gpi-182">[179]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_List" title="Kurdistan List">Kurdistan List</a> is dominated by two parties, the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Democratic_Party_(Iraq)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iraq)">Kurdistan Democratic Party</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Masood_Barzani" class="mw-redirect" title="Masood Barzani">Masood Barzani</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan" title="Patriotic Union of Kurdistan">Patriotic Union of Kurdistan</a> headed by <a href="/wiki/Jalal_Talabani" title="Jalal Talabani">Jalal Talabani</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbc-gpi-182">[179]</a> Baghdad is Iraq's capital, home to the seat of government.<a href="#cite_note-bbc-gpi-182">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-:12-181">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-vdem_dataset-183">[180]</a> Located in the <a href="/wiki/Green_Zone" title="Green Zone">Green Zone</a>, which contains governmental headquarters and the army, in addition to containing the headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad" title="Embassy of the United States, Baghdad">American embassy</a> and the headquarters of foreign organisations and agencies for other countries. According to the 2023 <a href="/wiki/V-Dem_Democracy_indices" class="mw-redirect" title="V-Dem Democracy indices">V-Dem Democracy indices</a> Iraq was the third most <a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa" title="Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa">electoral democratic country in the Middle East</a>.<a href="#cite_note-vdem_dataset-183">[180]</a> Under Saddam, the government employed 1 million employees, but this increased to around 7 million in 2016. In combination with decreased oil prices, the government budget deficit is near 25% of GDP as of 2016<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iraq&action=edit">[update]</a>.<a href="#cite_note-184">[181]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Law">Law</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Iraq" title="Law of Iraq">Law of Iraq</a></div> In October 2005, the new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Constitution of Iraq</a> was approved in a referendum with a 78% overall majority, although the percentage of support varied widely between the country's territories.<a href="#cite_note-185">[182]</a> The new constitution was backed by the Shia and Kurdish communities, but was rejected by Arab Sunnis. Under the terms of the constitution, the country conducted <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_December_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi parliamentary election, December 2005">fresh nationwide parliamentary elections</a> on 15 December 2005. All three major <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic groups in Iraq">ethnic groups in Iraq</a> voted along ethnic lines, as did Assyrian and <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_rug" title="Turkmen rug">Turcoman</a> minorities. Law no. 188 of the year 1959 (Personal Status Law)<a href="#cite_note-186">[183]</a> made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16.<a href="#cite_note-unesco1-187">[184]</a> Article 1 of Civil Code also identifies Islamic law as a formal source of law.<a href="#cite_note-188">[185]</a> Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce. In 1995 Iraq introduced Sharia punishment for certain types of criminal offences.<a href="#cite_note-189">[186]</a> The code is based on French civil law as well as Sunni and Jafari (<a href="/wiki/Shi%27ite" class="mw-redirect" title="Shi'ite">Shi'ite</a>) interpretations of Sharia.<a href="#cite_note-190">[187]</a> In 2004, the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority">CPA</a> chief executive L. Paul Bremer said he would veto any constitutional draft stating that sharia is the principal basis of law.<a href="#cite_note-191">[188]</a> The declaration enraged many local Shia clerics,<a href="#cite_note-192">[189]</a> and by 2005 the US had relented, allowing a role for sharia in the constitution to help end a stalemate on the draft constitution.<a href="#cite_note-193">[190]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Penal_Code" title="Iraqi Penal Code">Iraqi Penal Code</a> is the statutory law of Iraq. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military">Military</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Armed_Forces" title="Iraqi Armed Forces">Iraqi Armed Forces</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_equipment_of_the_Iraqi_Ground_Forces" title="List of current equipment of the Iraqi Ground Forces">List of current equipment of the Iraqi Ground Forces</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iraqi_Soldiers_look_on_as_a_new_group_of_Iraqi_Policemen_graduate_from_the_Police_Academy_in_the_Muthana_Zayuna_District,_Baghdad,_Iraq,_on_January_9,_2006._The_Iraqi_Army_and_Polic_-_DPLA_-_a83c9fc6e11d42c37d0aaf4b5e60bc84.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Iraqi_Soldiers_look_on_as_a_new_group_of_Iraqi_Policemen_graduate_from_the_Police_Academy_in_the_Muthana_Zayuna_District%2C_Baghdad%2C_Iraq%2C_on_January_9%2C_2006._The_Iraqi_Army_and_Polic_-_DPLA_-_a83c9fc6e11d42c37d0aaf4b5e60bc84.jpeg/250px-thumbnail.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Iraqi_Soldiers_look_on_as_a_new_group_of_Iraqi_Policemen_graduate_from_the_Police_Academy_in_the_Muthana_Zayuna_District%2C_Baghdad%2C_Iraq%2C_on_January_9%2C_2006._The_Iraqi_Army_and_Polic_-_DPLA_-_a83c9fc6e11d42c37d0aaf4b5e60bc84.jpeg/330px-thumbnail.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Iraqi_Soldiers_look_on_as_a_new_group_of_Iraqi_Policemen_graduate_from_the_Police_Academy_in_the_Muthana_Zayuna_District%2C_Baghdad%2C_Iraq%2C_on_January_9%2C_2006._The_Iraqi_Army_and_Polic_-_DPLA_-_a83c9fc6e11d42c37d0aaf4b5e60bc84.jpeg/500px-thumbnail.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="996" /></a><figcaption>Iraqi soliders in Baghdad</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_security_forces" title="Iraqi security forces">Iraqi security forces</a> are composed of forces serving under the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defence, as well as the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Bureau (CTB), which oversees the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Special_Operations_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Special Operations Forces">Iraqi Special Operations Forces</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Popular_Mobilization_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular Mobilization Committee">Popular Mobilisation Committee</a> (PMC). Both CTB and PMC report directly to the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iraq" title="Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister of Iraq</a>. MOD forces include the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Army">Army</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Air_Force" title="Iraqi Air Force">Air Force</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Navy" title="Iraqi Navy">Navy</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Air_Defence_Command" title="Iraqi Air Defence Command">Air Defence Command</a>.<a href="#cite_note-194">[191]</a> The defence ministry also runs a Joint Staff College, training army, navy, and air force officers, with support from the <a href="/wiki/NATO_Training_Mission_-_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO Training Mission - Iraq">NATO Training Mission — Iraq</a>. The college was established at <a href="/wiki/Ar_Rustamiyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ar Rustamiyah">Ar Rustamiyah</a> on 27 September 2005.<a href="#cite_note-195">[192]</a> The centre runs Junior Staff and Senior Staff Officer Courses designed for <a href="/wiki/First_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lieutenant">first lieutenants</a> to <a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">majors</a>. The current Iraqi armed forces was rebuilt on American foundation. The army consists of 13 infantry divisions and one <a href="/wiki/Motorised_infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorised infantry">motorised infantry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:33-196">[193]</a> Each division consists of four brigades and comprises 14,000 soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-:33-196">[193]</a> Before 2003, Iraq was mostly equipped with Soviet-made military equipment, but since then the country has turned to Western suppliers.<a href="#cite_note-:33-196">[193]</a> The Iraqi air force is designed to support ground forces with surveillance, reconnaissance and troop lift. Two reconnaissance squadrons use light aircraft, three helicopter squadrons are used to move troops and one air transportation squadron uses <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules" title="Lockheed C-130 Hercules">C-130</a> transport aircraft to move troops, equipment, and supplies. The air force currently has 5,000 personnel.<a href="#cite_note-197">[194]</a> As of February 2011, the navy had approximately 5,000 sailors, including 800 <a href="/wiki/Marines_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marines (military)">marines</a>. The navy consists of an operational headquarters, five afloat squadrons, and two marine battalions, designed to protect shorelines and inland waterways from insurgent infiltration. On 4 November 2019, more than 100 <a href="/wiki/Australian_Defence_Force" title="Australian Defence Force">Australian Defence Force</a> personnel left <a href="/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory" title="Darwin, Northern Territory">Darwin</a> for the 10th rotation of Task Group <a href="/wiki/Taji" class="mw-redirect" title="Taji">Taji</a>, based north of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>. The Australian contingent mentors the Iraqi School of Infantry, where the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Security Forces">Iraqi Security Forces</a> are trained. However, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>'s contribution was reduced from 250 to 120 ADF personnel, which along with <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> had trained over 45,000 ISF members before that.<a href="#cite_note-198">[195]</a> On 17 November 2008, the U.S and Iraq agreed to a <a href="/wiki/Status_of_Forces_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Status of Forces Agreement">Status of Forces Agreement</a>,<a href="#cite_note-199">[196]</a> as part of the broader <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Framework_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Strategic Framework Agreement">Strategic Framework Agreement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-200">[197]</a> On 5 January 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi parliament">parliament</a> voted for a resolution that urges the government to work on expelling U.S troops from Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:10-201">[198]</a> The resolution was passed two days after <a href="/wiki/2020_Baghdad_International_Airport_airstrike" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike">an U.S drone strike</a> that killed <a href="/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani" title="Qasem Soleimani">Qasem Soleimani</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Quds_Force" title="Quds Force">Quds Force</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:10-201">[198]</a> The resolution specifically calls for ending of 2014 agreement allowing the U.S to help Iraq against <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq" title="Islamic State of Iraq">Islamic State groups</a> by sending troops.<a href="#cite_note-202">[199]</a> This resolution will also signify ending an agreement with Washington to station troops in Iraq as <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> vows to retaliate after the killing.<a href="#cite_note-203">[200]</a> On 28 September 2020, Washington made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq, as a result of Iranian-backed militias firing rockets at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad" title="Embassy of the United States, Baghdad">American Embassy in Baghdad</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:10-201">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-204">[201]</a> The officials said that the move was seen as an escalation of American confrontation with Iran.<a href="#cite_note-205">[202]</a> The US significantly <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Iraq_(2020%E2%80%932021)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2020–2021)">reduced its military presence in Iraq</a> after <a href="/wiki/US-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%932021)" title="US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)">the defeat of ISIS</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:11-204">[201]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Iraq" title="Foreign relations of Iraq">Foreign relations of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg/250px-Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg/330px-Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg/500px-Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani_and_Russian_President_Vladimir_Putin-2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Al-Sudani</a> with Russian president <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> during a meeting in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, 2024</figcaption></figure>Throughout the history, Iraq has followed different foreign policies under various regimes. Under monarchical rule, it was <a href="/wiki/Pro-Western" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-Western">pro-Western</a> and part of the <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_Pact" class="mw-redirect" title="Baghdad Pact">Baghdad Pact</a>, an alliance against the Soviet Union during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Saadabad" title="Treaty of Saadabad">Saadabad Pact</a> with <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pahlavi_Iran" title="Pahlavi Iran">Iran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-206">[203]</a> During Abdul Karim Qasim, Iraq withdrew from the pact and formed close ties with the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> and claimed Kuwait as part of Iraq,<a href="#cite_note-:23-207">[204]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-206">[203]</a> despite successive regimes having recognised Kuwait's independence.<a href="#cite_note-:23-207">[204]</a> Until 2003, Iraq was considered as a <a href="/wiki/Regional_power" title="Regional power">regional power</a>.<a href="#cite_note-208">[205]</a> Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq maintained ties with <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">pro-Soviet countries</a> and had close trade relations with India and Jordan.<a href="#cite_note-:23-207">[204]</a> It provided financial support to <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> and aid for the post-war reconstruction in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:23-207">[204]</a> But received <a href="/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War">support from the US</a>, the <a href="/wiki/British_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="British support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War">UK</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="French support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War">France</a> during the war with Iran. However, <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act" title="Iraq Liberation Act">relations were deteriorated</a> as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. This led to the invasion of Iraq, which was strongly opposed by <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-206">[203]</a> Iraq is an emerging middle power and has been playing the role of a mediator for several regional crisis.<a href="#cite_note-:34-209">[206]</a> After the end of the war, Iraq sought and strengthened regional economic cooperation and improved relations with neighbouring countries.<a href="#cite_note-in-210">[207]</a> Since the situation eased, Iraq re-engaged with its Arab neighbours while maintaining relations with Iran in an attempt to position Iraq as a country that would not exacerbate the security concerns of its neighbours and seeking a pragmatic balance in foreign relations.<a href="#cite_note-in-210">[207]</a> It has played an important role in mediating and hosting direct talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia.<a href="#cite_note-:34-209">[206]</a> The government has taken on the role of mediator attempting to mediate between Egypt, Jordan, and Iran after its success in mediating between Saudi Arabia and Iran.<a href="#cite_note-:36-211">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-212">[209]</a> It has expressed its willingness to mediate and find a solution for the ongoing Yemeni crisis.<a href="#cite_note-:36-211">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-213">[210]</a> Since 2019, Iraq has attempted to play a mediating role between the U.S and Iran following the withdrawal of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Trump Administration">administration</a> from the landmark <a href="/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework" title="Iran nuclear deal framework">2015 Iranian nuclear deal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:36-211">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-214">[211]</a> Iraq has also attempt to mediate between Turkey and Syria, as well between Bashar al-Assad's government, the opposition groups and the Arab League during the civil war in Syria.<a href="#cite_note-215">[212]</a><a href="#cite_note-216">[213]</a> According to several reports, Iraq is playing an influential role in the global oil market.<a href="#cite_note-strategiecs.com-217">[214]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">al-Sudani</a> has sought to normalize <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Syria_relations" title="Iraq–Syria relations">relations with Syria</a> in order to expand co-operation.<a href="#cite_note-218">[215]</a> In 2021, Baghdad hosted regional security summit, that included Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, France, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and the European Union.<a href="#cite_note-219">[216]</a><a href="#cite_note-220">[217]</a> It has also hosted an economic conference in 2023, for Economic Integration and Regional Stability.<a href="#cite_note-221">[218]</a> Iraq is also seeking to deepen its ties with the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">Gulf Cooperation Council</a> countries.<a href="#cite_note-222">[219]</a> China and GCC countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar have invested in various sectors.<a href="#cite_note-223">[220]</a> China and India are the largest buyers of Iraqi oil. In 2022, Iraq also finished paying reparations to Kuwait for its invasion. Recently foreign ministers of Iraq and Kuwait have announced that they were working on a definitive agreement on border demarcation.<a href="#cite_note-224">[221]</a><a href="#cite_note-225">[222]</a> However, these progressive diplomacy of Iraq has been met by numerous challenges, such as the rising influence of the U.S and Iran, post-war impact and chaos, and identity crisis among Iraq's population.<a href="#cite_note-strategiecs.com-217">[214]</a> On 12 February 2009, Iraq officially became the 186th State Party to the <a href="/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention" title="Chemical Weapons Convention">Chemical Weapons Convention</a>. Under the provisions of this treaty, Iraq is considered a party with declared stockpiles of <a href="/wiki/Chemical_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemical weapons">chemical weapons</a>. Because of their late accession, Iraq is the only State Party exempt from the existing timeline for destruction of their chemical weapons.<a href="#cite_note-226">[223]</a> <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_relations" title="Iran–Iraq relations">Relations with Iran</a> have flourished since 2005 by the exchange of high-level visits.<a href="#cite_note-in-210">[207]</a> A conflict occurred in December 2009, when Iraq accused Iran of seizing an oil well on the border.<a href="#cite_note-227">[224]</a> <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Turkey_relations" title="Iraq–Turkey relations">Relations with Turkey</a> are tense, largely because of the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Regional_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdistan Regional Government">Kurdistan Regional Government</a>, as clashes between <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party" title="Kurdistan Workers' Party">PKK</a> continue.<a href="#cite_note-228">[225]</a> In October 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkish parliament">Turkish parliament</a> renewed a law that gives Turkish forces the ability to pursue rebels over the <a href="/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Turkey_border" title="Iraq–Turkey border">border in Iraq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-229">[226]</a> Turkey's <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Anatolia_Project" title="Southeastern Anatolia Project">"Great Anatolia Project"</a> reduced Iraq's water supply and affected agriculture.<a href="#cite_note-230">[227]</a><a href="#cite_note-watercrisis-163">[160]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_rights">Human rights</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Iraq" title="Human rights in Iraq">Human rights in Iraq</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_ISIL-controlled_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights in ISIL-controlled territory">Human rights in ISIL-controlled territory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mass_executions_in_ISIL_occupied_Mosul" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass executions in ISIL occupied Mosul">Mass executions in ISIL occupied Mosul</a></div> Relations between Iraq and its <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Kurds" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Kurds">Kurdish population</a> have been sour in recent history, especially with <a href="/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Anfal Campaign">Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign</a> against them in the 1980s. After <a href="/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 uprisings in Iraq">uprisings during the early 90s</a>, many Kurds fled their homeland and <a href="/wiki/No-fly_zone" title="No-fly zone">no-fly zones</a> were established in northern Iraq to prevent more conflicts. Despite historically poor relations, some progress has been made, and Iraq elected its first Kurdish president, <a href="/wiki/Jalal_Talabani" title="Jalal Talabani">Jalal Talabani</a>, in 2005. Furthermore, <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a> is now an official language of Iraq alongside <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> according to Article 4 of the Constitution.<a href="#cite_note-Constitution-47">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Iraq">LGBT rights in Iraq</a> remain limited. Although <a href="/wiki/Sodomy_law" title="Sodomy law">decriminalised</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a> remains <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">stigmatised in Iraqi society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-231">[228]</a> <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Islamic_State-controlled_territory" title="Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory">Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory</a> have been recorded as highly violated. It included <a href="/wiki/Mass_executions_in_Islamic_State-occupied_Mosul" title="Mass executions in Islamic State-occupied Mosul">mass executions in Islamic State-occupied</a> part of Mosul and <a href="/wiki/Yazidi_genocide" title="Yazidi genocide">genocide of the Yazidis</a> in Yazidi populated <a href="/wiki/Sinjar" title="Sinjar">Sinjar</a>, which is in northern Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-232">[229]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Iraq" title="Governorates of Iraq">Governorates of Iraq</a></div> Iraq is composed of eighteen <a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">governorates</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">provinces</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: muhafadhat, singular muhafadhah). The governorates are subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Iraq" title="Districts of Iraq">districts</a> (or qadhas), which are further divided into <a href="/wiki/Nahiyah" title="Nahiyah">sub-districts</a> (or nawāḥī). A nineteenth governorate, <a href="/wiki/Halabja_Governorate" title="Halabja Governorate">Halabja Governorate</a>, is unrecognised by the Iraqi government. <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="30%">Clickable map of Iraq exhibiting its eighteen governorates, and partially recognized Halabja. <figure class="noresize mw-ext-imagemap-desc-bottom-left" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="A clickable map of Iraq exhibiting its governorates." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Iraqi_Governorates_including_partially_recognized_Halabja.svg/360px-Iraqi_Governorates_including_partially_recognized_Halabja.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Iraqi_Governorates_including_partially_recognized_Halabja.svg/540px-Iraqi_Governorates_including_partially_recognized_Halabja.svg.png 1.5x, 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coords="261,89,257,90,257,90,258,91,258,91,258,92,258,92,259,93,259,93,259,93,259,94,259,95,259,95,258,95,257,95,257,95,257,96,257,97,256,98,256,98,255,98,255,99,254,99,254,100,253,100,253,100,254,101,254,101,255,102,255,102,255,102,256,102,257,103,257,103,258,103,258,103,259,103,259,103,260,103,261,104,261,104,262,104,263,104,264,104,264,104,264,104,265,104,266,104,267,103,267,102,267,102,266,102,266,101,266,100,266,100,266,99,267,99,267,99,267,98,267,98,267,98,267,98,266,98,265,97,265,97,265,97,264,97,264,96,264,96,265,95,265,95,265,95,265,95,266,94,265,93,264,93,264,92,264,92,263,91,262,90,262,90,261,89,261,89,261,88,260,88,260,88,261,88" alt="Halabja Governorate" title="Halabja Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Ninawa_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="135,26,153,39,167,32,177,35,178,28,186,27,202,38,195,42,172,66,170,79,156,82,151,90,158,103,138,103,137,111,96,101,100,84,98,66,100,47,117,44" alt="Ninawa Governorate" title="Ninawa Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Dohuk_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="178,27,177,35,167,30,154,39,135,23,142,22,149,12,155,15,161,12,186,19,192,14,196,18,187,27" alt="Dohuk Governorate" title="Dohuk Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Arbil_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="188,26,195,15,203,17,200,26,204,29,214,19,228,45,214,47,213,58,222,71,187,73,181,88,169,84,176,62,201,39" alt="Arbil Governorate" title="Arbil Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="215,47,213,60,222,72,217,72,222,89,211,101,224,112,236,122,252,100,254,110,267,100,261,82,274,76,273,73,253,76,238,67,234,50" alt="Sulaymaniyah Governorate" title="Sulaymaniyah Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Kirkuk_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="216,74,221,89,201,116,169,99,164,89,181,86,187,73" alt="Kirkuk Governorate" title="Kirkuk Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Diyala_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="222,113,238,122,254,102,254,110,244,130,241,147,260,167,248,181,226,174,217,185,209,177,215,170,212,166,204,166,208,149,202,144" alt="Diyala Governorate" title="Diyala Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Salah_ad_Din_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="138,105,158,103,151,91,168,78,170,87,166,89,169,99,201,118,212,102,223,111,210,125,201,143,208,147,203,166,201,170,193,158,174,155,174,146,161,132,158,142,156,137,156,126,150,132,138,124" alt="Salah ad Din Governorate" title="Salah ad Din Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="96,102,136,113,141,125,148,134,155,129,154,139,169,158,176,157,194,159,201,169,196,175,188,175,188,178,195,181,194,194,187,196,176,180,172,188,175,201,166,204,186,222,174,229,161,252,154,282,127,260,68,227,29,218,31,214,30,210,21,212,20,205,23,204,13,172,79,133,87,131,97,116" alt="Al Anbar Governorate" title="Al Anbar Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Baghdad_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="210,167,214,172,210,175,207,176,201,178,195,175,203,167" alt="Baghdad Governorate" title="Baghdad Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Babil_Governorate" shape="poly" 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alt="Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate" title="Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Maysan_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="273,226,279,218,274,211,280,191,300,207,305,205,324,231,319,255,302,253,299,258,290,258,282,248" alt="Maysan Governorate" title="Maysan Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Dhi_Qar_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="251,226,272,226,283,249,288,259,299,258,299,281,295,279,279,283,268,272,248,271,252,258" alt="Dhi Qar Governorate" title="Dhi Qar Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Al_Muthanna_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="234,236,252,239,248,271,267,272,277,282,285,299,279,338,275,341,216,335,185,309,219,250,224,253" alt="Al Muthanna Governorate" title="Al Muthanna Governorate" /><area href="/wiki/Basra_Governorate" shape="poly" coords="302,256,318,255,318,264,330,264,330,283,343,296,350,306,329,303,309,300,299,304,281,339,286,296,281,288,281,282,294,279,299,281" alt="Basra Governorate" title="Basra Governorate" /></map><figcaption>A clickable map of Iraq exhibiting its governorates.</figcaption></figure> </td> <td width="70%"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 9em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dohuk_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Dohuk Governorate">Dohuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nineveh_Governorate" title="Nineveh Governorate">Nineveh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erbil_Governorate" title="Erbil Governorate">Erbil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkuk_Governorate" title="Kirkuk Governorate">Kirkuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah_Governorate" title="Sulaymaniyah Governorate">Sulaymaniyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saladin_Governorate" title="Saladin Governorate">Saladin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate" title="Al Anbar Governorate">Al Anbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baghdad_Governorate" title="Baghdad Governorate">Baghdad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diyala_Governorate" title="Diyala Governorate">Diyala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karbala_Governorate" title="Karbala Governorate">Karbala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babil_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Babil Governorate">Babylon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wasit_Governorate" title="Wasit Governorate">Wasit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Najaf_Governorate" title="Najaf Governorate">Najaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Q%C4%81disiyyah_Governorate" title="Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate">Al-Qādisiyyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maysan_Governorate" title="Maysan Governorate">Maysan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthanna_Governorate" title="Muthanna Governorate">Muthanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhi_Qar_Governorate" title="Dhi Qar Governorate">Dhi Qar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basra_Governorate" title="Basra Governorate">Basra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halabja_Governorate" title="Halabja Governorate">Halabja</a></li></ul></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq" title="Economy of Iraq">Economy of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg/250px-Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg/330px-Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg/500px-Historical_economic_growth_of_Iraq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1027" data-file-height="655" /></a><figcaption>Historical economic growth of Iraq</figcaption></figure> According to the <a href="/wiki/IFAD" class="mw-redirect" title="IFAD">International Fund for Agricultural Development</a>, Iraq is an <a href="/wiki/Oil-rich_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil-rich country">oil-rich</a> upper-middle-income country.<a href="#cite_note-:28-233">[230]</a> Iraq's economy is dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">oil</a> sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings.<a href="#cite_note-:28-233">[230]</a> The lack of development in other sectors has resulted in 18%–30% unemployed and a per capita GDP of $4,812.<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-:28-233">[230]</a> Public sector employment accounted for nearly 60% of full-time employment in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-usaid11-234">[231]</a> The oil export industry, which dominates the Iraqi economy, generates little employment.<a href="#cite_note-usaid11-234">[231]</a> Currently only a modest percentage of women (the highest estimate for 2011 was 22%) participate in the labour force.<a href="#cite_note-usaid11-234">[231]</a> The official currency in Iraq is the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_dinar" title="Iraqi dinar">Iraqi dinar</a>. The Central Provisional Authority issued new dinar coins and notes, with the notes printed by <a href="/wiki/De_La_Rue" title="De La Rue">De La Rue</a> using modern anti-forgery techniques.<a href="#cite_note-235">[232]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Cramer" title="Jim Cramer">Jim Cramer</a>'s 20 October 2009 endorsement of the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_dinar" title="Iraqi dinar">Iraqi dinar</a> on <a href="/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC">CNBC</a> has further piqued interest in the investment.<a href="#cite_note-236">[233]</a> Prior to the 2003 invasion, Iraq's <a href="/wiki/Central_planning" class="mw-redirect" title="Central planning">centrally planned economy</a> prohibited the foreign ownership of businesses, ran most large industries as state-owned enterprises, and imposed large <a href="/wiki/Tariff" title="Tariff">tariffs</a> to keep the foreign goods out .<a href="#cite_note-237">[234]</a><a href="#cite_note-:31-238">[235]</a> Oil was nationalised in 1972 and its revenue was spent on government development projects. Iraq was one of the most advanced countries in the Middle East. But it faced economic decline as a result of sanctions. After <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority">Coalition Provisional Authority</a> quickly began issuing many binding orders <a href="/wiki/Privatization" title="Privatization">privatising</a> the Iraqi economy and opening it up to <a href="/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment" title="Foreign direct investment">foreign investment</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:31-238">[235]</a> On 20 November 2004, the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Club" title="Paris Club">Paris Club</a> of creditor countries agreed to write off 80% ($33 billion) of Iraq's $42 billion debt to Club members. Iraq's total external debt was around $120 billion at the time of the invasion, and had grown another $5 billion by 2004. The <a href="/wiki/Debt_relief" title="Debt relief">debt relief</a> was to be implemented in three stages: two of 30% each and one of 20%.<a href="#cite_note-239">[236]</a> Five years after the invasion, an estimated 2.4 million people were <a href="/wiki/Internally_displaced_person" title="Internally displaced person">internally displaced</a> (with a further two million refugees outside Iraq), four million Iraqis were considered food-insecure (a quarter of children were chronically malnourished) and only a third of Iraqi children had access to safe drinking water.<a href="#cite_note-ODI1-240">[237]</a> In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the <a href="/wiki/UN_Compensation_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Compensation Commission">UN Compensation Commission</a> was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the invasion of 1990, the reparations body announced that Iraq has paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations to Kuwait.<a href="#cite_note-241">[238]</a> According to the <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Development_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas Development Institute">Overseas Development Institute</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_non-governmental_organization" title="International non-governmental organization">international NGOs</a> face challenges in carrying out their mission, leaving their assistance "piecemeal and largely conducted undercover, hindered by insecurity, a lack of coordinated funding, limited operational capacity and patchy information".<a href="#cite_note-ODI1-240">[237]</a> International NGOs have been targeted and during the first 5 years, 94 aid workers were killed, 248 injured, 24 arrested or detained and 89 kidnapped or abducted.<a href="#cite_note-ODI1-240">[237]</a> The war have left heavy impact on the economy.<a href="#cite_note-242">[239]</a><a href="#cite_note-243">[240]</a> According to a report by the <a href="/wiki/Arab_News" title="Arab News">Arab News</a>, Iraq has shown positive signs of recovery.<a href="#cite_note-244">[241]</a><a href="#cite_note-245">[242]</a> The Kurdish and Shia populated regions of Iraq have experienced economic boom since the end of the war.<a href="#cite_note-246">[243]</a><a href="#cite_note-247">[244]</a><a href="#cite_note-alarabiya.net-248">[245]</a> The Kurdistan Region is economically more stable. In recent years, Sunni-populated provinces in Iraq have also made economic progress, as evidenced by numerous new construction projects.<a href="#cite_note-249">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-250">[247]</a><a href="#cite_note-251">[248]</a> In 2025, parliament speaker <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mashhadani" title="Mahmoud al-Mashhadani">Mahmoud al-Mashhadani</a> stressed that that Iraq is stable in terms of security and economy and has taken a non-aligned approach.<a href="#cite_note-252">[249]</a> According to a new report from the Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corporation ("Dhaman"), the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>, Saudi Arabia, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, Iraq, and <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>, the leading contributors to the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Arab_League" title="Economy of the Arab League">Arab economy</a> and 72% of the region’s GDP.<a href="#cite_note-253">[250]</a><a href="#cite_note-254">[251]</a> In addition, Iraq is an agricultural country.<a href="#cite_note-255">[252]</a> Tourism in Iraq stands to be a major growth sector, including <a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iraq" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Iraq">archaeological tourism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious_tourism" title="Religious tourism">religious tourism</a> while the country is also considered to be a potential location for <a href="/wiki/Ecotourism" title="Ecotourism">ecotourism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-256">[253]</a><a href="#cite_note-257">[254]</a><a href="#cite_note-258">[255]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism">Tourism</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Iraq" title="Tourism in Iraq">Tourism in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Street_in_Babylon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/250px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/330px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Street_in_Babylon.jpg/500px-Street_in_Babylon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>A reconstructed portion of the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a></figcaption></figure> Iraq was an important <a href="/wiki/Tourist_destination" class="mw-redirect" title="Tourist destination">tourist destination</a> for many years but that changed dramatically during the <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">war with Iran</a> and after the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invasion by the US and allies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-259">[256]</a> As Iraq continues to develop and stabilizes, tourism in Iraq is still facing many challenges, and little has been made by the government to meet its tremendous potential as a global tourist destination, and gain the associated economic benefits, mainly due to conflicts.<a href="#cite_note-260">[257]</a> Sites from Iraq's ancient past are numerous and many that are close to large cities have been excavated. Babylon has seen major recent restoration; known for its famous <a href="/wiki/Ziggurat_of_Ur" title="Ziggurat of Ur">Ziggurat</a> (the inspiration for the Biblical <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_Babel" title="Tower of Babel">Tower of Babel</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon" title="Hanging Gardens of Babylon">Hanging Gardens</a> (one of the <a href="/wiki/Wonders_of_the_World" title="Wonders of the World">Seven Wonders of the World</a>), and the <a href="/wiki/Ishtar_Gate" title="Ishtar Gate">Ishtar Gate</a>, making it a prime destination. <a href="/wiki/Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a>, a rival to <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>, has also seen significant restoration and reconstruction.<a href="#cite_note-:32-261">[258]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ur" title="Ur">Ur</a>, one of the first Sumerian cities, which is near <a href="/wiki/Nasiriyah" title="Nasiriyah">Nasiriyya</a>, has been partially restored.<a href="#cite_note-:32-261">[258]</a> This is a list of examples of some significant sites in a country with a tremendous archaeological and historic wealth.<a href="#cite_note-:32-261">[258]</a> Iraq is considered to be a potential location for <a href="/wiki/Ecotourism" title="Ecotourism">ecotourism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-262">[259]</a> The tourism in Iraq includes also making pilgrimages to <a href="/wiki/Holiest_sites_in_Islam_(Shia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Holiest sites in Islam (Shia)">holy Shia Islamic sites</a> near <a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Najaf" title="Najaf">Najaf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-alarabiya.net-248">[245]</a> Since 2003, Najaf and Karbala have experienced economic boom, due to religious tourism.<a href="#cite_note-alarabiya.net-248">[245]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mosul_Museum" title="Mosul Museum">Mosul Museum</a> is the second largest museum in Iraq after the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Museum" title="Iraq Museum">Iraq Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>. It contains ancient <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamian</a> artefacts. Saddam Hussein built hundreds of palaces and monuments across the country. Some of them include <a href="/wiki/Al-Faw_Palace" title="Al-Faw Palace">Al-Faw Palace</a>, <a href="/wiki/As-Salam_Palace" title="As-Salam Palace">As-Salam Palace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radwaniyah_Palace" title="Radwaniyah Palace">Radwaniyah Palace</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Vince-2016-263">[260]</a> Al-Faw Palace is currently occupied by the <a href="/wiki/American_University_of_Iraq_-_Baghdad" title="American University of Iraq - Baghdad">American University of Iraq</a>. Since Saddam's overthrow, the palaces are open to tourists, though they are not officially functioning, and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Iraq">government of Iraq</a> is considering to sell them for useful purposes. A majority of these structures were built after the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">1991 Gulf War</a>, when Iraq was put under sanctions by the United Nations.<a href="#cite_note-Vince-2016-263">[260]</a> Saddam reconstructed part of Babylon, one of the world's earliest cities, using bricks inscribed with his name to associate himself with the region's past glories.<a href="#cite_note-264">[261]</a> One of his palaces in Basra was turned into a museum, despite it was time when Iraq allied with the US was engaged in war with the ISIS.<a href="#cite_note-265">[262]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finance">Finance</h3></div> Iraq's "dollar auction" system, established after <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003</a>, has become a conduit for massive <a href="/wiki/Financial_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial fraud">financial fraud</a>. This system allows Iraqi banks to purchase U.S. dollars from Iraq's oil revenues held at the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank" title="Federal Reserve Bank">Federal Reserve Bank</a>. However, it has been exploited by fraudsters, terrorists, and money launderers to funnel billions of dollars out of Iraq. Despite warnings and evidence of fraud, American officials failed to take significant action for years. In 2015, an Iraqi parliamentary committee uncovered widespread fraud, including $6.5 billion obtained fraudulently by Al-Huda Bank. The typical fraud involved Iraqi banks submitting fake invoices and documents to obtain dollars, which were then sent to exchange houses or individuals instead of legitimate exporters. These misused funds have reportedly supported various U.S. adversaries, including Iran-backed militias, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Ba%27athist_Syria" title="Ba'athist Syria">Syrian regime</a>. Recent U.S. actions have included sanctioning some Iraqi banks and individuals involved in the fraud, but critics argue these measures came too late. Specific examples of fraudulent transactions are provided, including those involving United Bank for Investment (UBI) and its chairman, Fadhil al-Dabbas. Experts suggest that U.S. inaction was due to various factors, including a focus on maintaining Iraqi dinar stability and the distraction of the war against the Islamic State. This long-standing financial abuse has had far-reaching consequences for both Iraq and U.S. interests in the region, highlighting the complexity of financial oversight in post-conflict environments.<a href="#cite_note-266">[263]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport">Transport</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Iraq" title="Transport in Iraq">Transport in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Erbil_mosul_highway.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Erbil_mosul_highway.png/220px-Erbil_mosul_highway.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Erbil_mosul_highway.png/330px-Erbil_mosul_highway.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Erbil_mosul_highway.png/440px-Erbil_mosul_highway.png 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="2382" /></a><figcaption>Mosul–Erbil Motorway in northern Iraq, an important route</figcaption></figure> Iraq has a modern network of motorways. <a href="/wiki/Roads_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Roads in Iraq">Roadways</a> extended 45,550 km (28,300 mi).<a href="#cite_note-sites.google.com-267">[264]</a> The roadway also connect Iraq to neighbouring countries of <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sites.google.com-267">[264]</a> There are more than seven million passenger cars, over million commercial taxis, buses, and trucks in use. On major motorways the maximum speed is 110 km/h (68 mph).<a href="#cite_note-268">[265]</a> Many of the roads were constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s and were designed with a 20-year lifespan.<a href="#cite_note-:25-269">[266]</a> Most of these facilities were damaged in enduring wars, that Iraq experienced.<a href="#cite_note-:25-269">[266]</a> Since then traffic has been a serious issue, specially in Baghdad. <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Republic_Railways" title="Iraqi Republic Railways">Iraqi Republic Railways</a> is the responsible body for railway transportation in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a> The railway infrastructure consists of 2,405 km (1,494 mi) of track, 109 stations, 31 locomotives and 1,685 units of rolling stock.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a> The government is attempting to establish railway links with Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to complete a continuous Euro-Gulf rail route.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a> Currently, a large project is underway to connect Karbala and Najaf. Most of Iraq's oil exports are done through its ports.<a href="#cite_note-:25-269">[266]</a> Basra is the only coastal governorate of Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:25-269">[266]</a> It is home to all of Iraq's six ports — <a href="/wiki/Abu_Flous_Port" title="Abu Flous Port">Abu Flous Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Ba%C5%9Frah_Oil_Terminal" title="Al Başrah Oil Terminal">Al Başrah Oil Terminal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Faw_Port" title="Grand Faw Port">Grand Faw Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khor_Al_Amaya_Oil_Terminal" title="Khor Al Amaya Oil Terminal">Khor Al Amaya Oil Terminal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khor_Al_Zubair_Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Khor Al Zubair Port">Khor Al Zubair Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Basra" title="Port of Basra">Port of Basra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Umm_Qasr_Port" title="Umm Qasr Port">Umm Qasr Port</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:25-269">[266]</a> Iraq has about 104 airports as of 2012.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a> Major airports at <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_International_Airport" title="Baghdad International Airport">Baghdad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basra_International_Airport" title="Basra International Airport">Basra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erbil_International_Airport" title="Erbil International Airport">Erbil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sulaimaniyah_International_Airport" title="Sulaimaniyah International Airport">Sulaymaniyah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kirkuk_International_Airport" title="Kirkuk International Airport">Kirkuk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Najaf_International_Airport" title="Al Najaf International Airport">Najaf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a> The government is constructing international airports for <a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nasiriyah" title="Nasiriyah">Nasiriyah</a>. <a href="/wiki/Nasiriyah_Airport" title="Nasiriyah Airport">Nasiriyah Airport</a> is in partnership with China and reoping of Mosul Airport, which was closed during the 2013–2017 civil war.<a href="#cite_note-:26-270">[267]</a><a href="#cite_note-271">[268]</a><a href="#cite_note-272">[269]</a><a href="#cite_note-Frbiu_03-2017-273">[270]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oil_and_energy">Oil and energy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iraq" title="Oil reserves in Iraq">Oil reserves in Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Iraq" title="Energy in Iraq">Energy in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_(ABOT).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg/250px-Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg/330px-Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg/500px-Al_Basrah_Oil_Terminal_%28ABOT%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption>Basra oil terminal, southern Iraq</figcaption></figure> With its 143.1 billion barrels (2.275×1010 m3) of proved oil reserves, Iraq ranks third in the world behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in the amount of <a href="/wiki/Oil_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil reserves">oil reserves</a>.<a href="#cite_note-274">[271]</a><a href="#cite_note-275">[272]</a> Oil production levels reached 3.4 million barrels per day by December 2012.<a href="#cite_note-276">[273]</a> Only about 2,000 <a href="/wiki/Oil_well" title="Oil well">oil wells</a> have been drilled in Iraq, compared with about 1 million wells in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> alone.<a href="#cite_note-277">[274]</a> Iraq was one of the founding members of <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>.<a href="#cite_note-278">[275]</a><a href="#cite_note-279">[276]</a> During the 1970s Iraq produced up to 3.5 million <a href="/wiki/Barrel_(unit)" title="Barrel (unit)">barrels per day</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Iraq">sanctions imposed against Iraq</a> after its <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Kuwait">invasion of Kuwait</a> in 1990 crippled the country's oil sector. The <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_against_Iraq" title="International sanctions against Iraq">sanctions</a> prohibited Iraq from exporting oil until 1996 and Iraq's output declined by 85% in the years following the First <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>. The sanctions were lifted in 2003 after the US-led invasion removed Saddam Hussein from power, but development of Iraq's oil resources has been hampered by the ongoing conflict.<a href="#cite_note-atlantic-280">[277]</a> As of 2010<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iraq&action=edit">[update]</a>, despite improved security and billions of dollars in oil revenue, Iraq still generates about half the electricity that customers demand, leading to protests during the hot summer months.<a href="#cite_note-281">[278]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Iraq_oil_law_(2007)" title="Iraq oil law (2007)">Iraq oil law</a>, a proposed piece of legislation submitted to the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives of Iraq</a> in 2007, has failed to gain approval due to disagreements among Iraq's various political blocs.<a href="#cite_note-282">[279]</a><a href="#cite_note-283">[280]</a> <a href="/wiki/Al_Ba%C5%9Frah_Oil_Terminal" title="Al Başrah Oil Terminal">Al Başrah Oil Terminal</a> is a trans-shipment facility from the pipelines to the tankers and uses <a href="/wiki/Oil_tanker" title="Oil tanker">supertankers</a>. According to a US Study from May 2007, between 100,000 barrels per day (16,000 m3/d) and 300,000 barrels per day (48,000 m3/d) of Iraq's declared oil production over the past four years could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling.<a href="#cite_note-284">[281]</a> In 2008, <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Jazeera">Al Jazeera</a> reported $13 billion of Iraqi oil revenues in American care was improperly accounted for, of which $2.6 billion is totally unaccounted for.<a href="#cite_note-285">[282]</a> Some reports that the government has reduced corruption in public procurement of oil; however, reliable reports of bribery and kickbacks to government officials persist.<a href="#cite_note-286">[283]</a> On 30 June and 11 December 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Oil_(Iraq)" title="Ministry of Oil (Iraq)">Ministry of Oil</a> awarded service contracts to international oil companies for some of Iraq's many oil fields.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera091211-287">[284]</a><a href="#cite_note-aljazeera090630-288">[285]</a> Oil fields contracted include the "super-giant" <a href="/wiki/Majnoon_oil_field" title="Majnoon oil field">Majnoon oil field</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halfaya_Field" title="Halfaya Field">Halfaya Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Qurna_Field" title="West Qurna Field">West Qurna Field</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rumaila_oil_field" title="Rumaila oil field">Rumaila Field</a>.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera090630-288">[285]</a> <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a> and <a href="/wiki/China_National_Petroleum_Corporation" title="China National Petroleum Corporation">China National Petroleum Corporation</a> won a deal to develop Rumaila, the largest oil field in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-289">[286]</a><a href="#cite_note-290">[287]</a> On 14 March 2014, the <a href="/wiki/International_Energy_Agency" title="International Energy Agency">International Energy Agency</a> said Iraq's oil output jumped by half a million barrels a day in February to average 3.6 million barrels a day. The country had not pumped that much oil since 1979, when Saddam Hussein rose to power.<a href="#cite_note-291">[288]</a> However, on 14 July 2014, as sectarian strife had taken hold, <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Regional_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdistan Regional Government">Kurdistan Regional Government</a> forces seized control of the Bai Hassan and <a href="/wiki/Kirkuk_Field" title="Kirkuk Field">Kirkuk</a> oilfields in the north of the country, taking them from Iraq's control. Baghdad condemned the seizure and threatened "dire consequences" if the fields were not returned.<a href="#cite_note-KurdsOilfields-292">[289]</a> On 2018, the UN estimated that oil accounts for 99% of Iraq's revenue.<a href="#cite_note-atlantic-280">[277]</a> As of 2021, the oil sector provided about 92% of foreign exchange earnings.<a href="#cite_note-293">[290]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Water_supply_and_sanitation">Water supply and sanitation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Water supply and sanitation in Iraq">Water supply and sanitation in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:5._Lake_Dukan,_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate,_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg/220px-5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg/330px-5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg/440px-5._Lake_Dukan%2C_Sulaymaniyah_Governorate%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lake_Dukan" title="Lake Dukan">Lake Dukan</a></figcaption></figure>Three decades of war greatly cut the existing <a href="/wiki/Water_resource_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Water resource management">water resources management</a> system for several major cities. This prompted widespread <a href="/wiki/Water_supply" title="Water supply">water supply</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sanitation" title="Sanitation">sanitation</a> shortfalls thus poor <a href="/wiki/Water_quality" title="Water quality">water</a> and service quality.<a href="#cite_note-watercrisis-163">[160]</a> This is combined with few businesses and households who are fully environmentally aware and legally compliant however the large lakes, as pictured, alleviate supply relative to many comparators in Western Asia beset by more regular drought. Access to potable water diverges among governorates and between urban and rural areas. 91% of the population has access to potable water. Forming this figure: in rural areas, 77% of people have access to improved (treated or fully naturally filtered) drinking water sources; and 98% in urban areas.<a href="#cite_note-UNWater-294">[291]</a> Much water is discarded during treatment, due to much outmoded equipment, raising energy burden and reducing supply.<a href="#cite_note-UNWater-294">[291]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Investment_in_post-invasion_Iraq" title="Investment in post-invasion Iraq">Investment in post-invasion Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg/250px-Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg/330px-Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg/500px-Al_Faw_Grand_Port-Dec2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption>The image shows a cargo ship docked at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Faw_Port" title="Grand Faw Port">Grand Faw Port</a>, highlighting the progress and activity as the port nears completion.</figcaption></figure> Although many infrastructure projects had already begun, at the end of 2013 Iraq had a housing crisis. The then war-ravaged country was set to complete 5 percent of the 2.5 million homes it needs to build by 2016 to keep up with demand, confirmed the Minister for Construction and Housing.<a href="#cite_note-295">[292]</a> In 2009, the Iraq Britain Business Council formed. Its key impetus was House of Lords member and trade expert <a href="/wiki/Emma_Nicholson,_Baroness_Nicholson_of_Winterbourne" title="Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne">Lady Nicholson</a>. In 2013, South Korean firm Daewoo reached a deal to build <a href="/wiki/Bismayah_New_City" title="Bismayah New City">Bismayah New City</a> of about 600,000 residents in 100,000 homes.<a href="#cite_note-296">[293]</a> In December 2020, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Al-Sudani</a> launched the second phase of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Faw_Port" title="Grand Faw Port">Grand Faw Port</a> via winning bid of project head contractor <a href="/wiki/Daewoo" title="Daewoo">Daewoo</a> at $2.7 billion.<a href="#cite_note-297">[294]</a> In late 2023, the government announced that it will build a total of 15 new cities across Iraq, in an attempt to tackle a persistent housing problem, according to officials.<a href="#cite_note-298">[295]</a> This project falls under the government's plan and strategy to establish new residential cities outside city centres, aiming to alleviate the urban housing crisis.<a href="#cite_note-:27-299">[296]</a> The first 5 new cities will be located in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylon_Governorate" title="Babylon Governorate">Babylon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nineveh_Governorate" title="Nineveh Governorate">Nineveh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate" title="Al Anbar Governorate">Anbar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a>, while another 10 new residential cities will be launched in other governorates.<a href="#cite_note-:27-299">[296]</a> The initial phase of the [housing] plan began in late 2023, when <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Al-Sudani</a> laid the foundation stone of Al-Jawahiri city.<a href="#cite_note-:27-299">[296]</a> Located west of the capital, the new city will host 30,000 housing units which will cost $2 billion.<a href="#cite_note-:27-299">[296]</a> It is expected to be completed in four to five years. According to officials, none of it is financed by the government.<a href="#cite_note-300">[297]</a><a href="#cite_note-iraqinews.com-301">[298]</a><a href="#cite_note-:27-299">[296]</a> In 2024, and during a visit to Baghdad by Turkish President <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Recep Tayyip Erdogan</a>, a quadrilateral memorandum of understanding regarding cooperation in <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Development_Road" title="Iraq Development Road">Iraq Development Road</a> project was signed between Iraq, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Türkiye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">UAE</a>. The deal was inked by the transportation ministers from each country. The 1,200-km project with railway and motorways which will connect the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Faw_Port" title="Grand Faw Port">Grand Faw Port</a>, aimed to be the largest port in the Middle East. It is planned to be completed by 2025 to the Turkish border at an expected cost of $17 billion. According to officials, it is a strategic national project for Iraq, and will become the largest sea port in the Middle East, as such strengthening Iraq's geopolitical position.<a href="#cite_note-302">[299]</a><a href="#cite_note-303">[300]</a><a href="#cite_note-304">[301]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq" title="Demographics of Iraq">Demographics of Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_of_Iraq" title="List of largest cities of Iraq">List of largest cities of Iraq</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Iraqis" title="Iraqis">Iraqis</a></div> The 2021 estimate of the total Iraqi population is 43,533,592.<a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP-305">[302]</a><a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP_2022-306">[303]</a> Iraq's population was estimated to be 2 million in 1878.<a href="#cite_note-Issawi1988-307">[304]</a> In 2013 Iraq's population reached 35 million amid a post-war population boom.<a href="#cite_note-308">[305]</a> It is the most populous country in the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabian Plate">Arabian Plate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-309">[306]</a> Iraq is made up of three former administrative divisions (vilayets) of the Ottoman Empire — Mosul, Basra and Baghdad — which were designated as concentration of different ethnic groups. Iraq's native population is predominantly <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arab</a>, but also includes other ethnic groups such as <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen" title="Iraqi Turkmen">Turkmens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shabaks" title="Shabaks">Shabaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenians in Iraq">Armenians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandaeans" title="Mandaeans">Mandaeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kawliya" class="mw-redirect" title="Kawliya">Kawliya</a>. A report by the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliamentary_Research_Service" title="European Parliamentary Research Service">European Parliamentary Research Service</a> suggests that, in 2015, there were 24 million Arabs (14 million <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a> and 9 million <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a>); 4.7 million Sunni <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a> (plus 500,000 <a href="/wiki/Faili_Kurds" class="mw-redirect" title="Faili Kurds">Faili Kurds</a> and 200,000 <a href="/wiki/Kaka%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaka'i">Kaka'i</a>); 3 million (mostly Sunni) <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmens" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Turkmens">Iraqi Turkmens</a>; 1 million <a href="/wiki/Black_Iraqis" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Iraqis">Black Iraqis</a>; 500,000 <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Iraq" title="Assyrians in Iraq">Assyrians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenians in Iraq">Armenians</a>); 500,000 <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>; 250,000 <a href="/wiki/Shabaks" title="Shabaks">Shabaks</a>; 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Gypsies_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Gypsies in Iraq">Roma</a>; 3,000 <a href="/wiki/Mandaeans" title="Mandaeans">Mandaeans</a>; 2,000 <a href="/wiki/Circassians_in_Iraq" title="Circassians in Iraq">Circassians</a>; 1,000 of the <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí Faith</a>; and a few hundred <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq" title="History of the Jews in Iraq">Jews</a>.<a href="#cite_note-EPRS-310">[307]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities_and_towns">Cities and towns</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Iraq">List of cities in Iraq</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1219497266">.mw-parser-output .largestCities-table-background{background:#f9f9f9;color:#222}.mw-parser-output .largestCities-cell-background{background:#f0f0f0;color:#222}</style> <div> <table style="font-size:88%;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%; border: 1px solid darkgray;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10" style="padding:0.3em 0.75em;"><div style="float:right; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div><div style="float:left; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div> <div style="height:2.6em;line-height:1.3em;">Largest cities or towns in Iraq <div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal;"><a href="#cite_note-311">[308]</a></div></div> </th></tr> <tr> <th></th> <th>Rank </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Iraq">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Iraq" title="Governorates of Iraq">Governorate</a> </th> <th>Pop. </th> <th>Rank </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Iraq">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Iraq" title="Governorates of Iraq">Governorate</a> </th> <th>Pop.</th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Baghdad"><img alt="Baghdad" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9.jpg/120px-%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9.jpg/250px-%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> <a href="/wiki/File:Views_in_Mosul_at_the_base_of_the_Shrine_of_Nebi_Yunis_was_built,_in_summer_of_2019_after_its_destruction_by_the_Islamic_State_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mosul"><img alt="Mosul" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Views_in_Mosul_at_the_base_of_the_Shrine_of_Nebi_Yunis_was_built%2C_in_summer_of_2019_after_its_destruction_by_the_Islamic_State_01.jpg/120px-Views_in_Mosul_at_the_base_of_the_Shrine_of_Nebi_Yunis_was_built%2C_in_summer_of_2019_after_its_destruction_by_the_Islamic_State_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Views_in_Mosul_at_the_base_of_the_Shrine_of_Nebi_Yunis_was_built%2C_in_summer_of_2019_after_its_destruction_by_the_Islamic_State_01.jpg/250px-Views_in_Mosul_at_the_base_of_the_Shrine_of_Nebi_Yunis_was_built%2C_in_summer_of_2019_after_its_destruction_by_the_Islamic_State_01.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="6240" data-file-height="4160" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> </td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Baghdad_Governorate" title="Baghdad Governorate"> Baghdad</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,719,477</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">11</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Hillah" title="Hillah">Hillah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Babylon_Governorate" title="Babylon Governorate"> Babylon</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">455,741 </td> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Basra"><img alt="Basra" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg/120px-%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg/250px-%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="960" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a> <a href="/wiki/File:Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Erbil"><img alt="Erbil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg/120px-Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg/180px-Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg/240px-Views_around_the_city_center_of_Erbil_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6016" data-file-height="4000" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Mosul_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosul Governorate"> Nineveh</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,361,819</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">12</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Diwaniyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Diwaniyah">Diwaniyah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Al-Q%C4%81disiyyah_Governorate" title="Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate"> Al-Qādisiyyah</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">403,796 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Basra_Governorate" title="Basra Governorate"> Basra</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,340,827</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">13</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kut" title="Kut">Kut</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Wasit_Governorate" title="Wasit Governorate"> Wasit</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">389,376 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Erbil_Governorate" title="Erbil Governorate"> Erbil</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,550,071</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">14</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dohuk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dohuk">Dohuk</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dohuk_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Dohuk Governorate"> Dohuk</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">340,871 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kirkuk" title="Kirkuk">Kirkuk</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kirkuk_Governorate" title="Kirkuk Governorate"> Kirkuk</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">972,272</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">15</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Az_Zubayr" title="Az Zubayr">Az Zubayr</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Basra_Governorate" title="Basra Governorate"> Basra</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">300,751 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">6</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Najaf" title="Najaf">Najaf</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Najaf_Governorate" title="Najaf Governorate"> Najaf as-Sharif</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">747,261</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">16</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Baqubah" title="Baqubah">Baqubah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Diyala_Governorate" title="Diyala Governorate"> Diyala</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">279,133 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Karbala_Governorate" title="Karbala Governorate"> Karbala</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">711,530</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">17</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Fallujah" title="Fallujah">Fallujah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Anbar_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Anbar Governorate"> Anbar</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">250,884 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah" title="Sulaymaniyah">Sulaymaniyah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah_Governorate" title="Sulaymaniyah Governorate"> Sulaymaniyah</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">676,492</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">18</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ramadi" title="Ramadi">Ramadi</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Anbar_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Anbar Governorate"> Anbar</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">223,525 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">9</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Nasiriyah" title="Nasiriyah">Nasiriyah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dhi_Qar_Governorate" title="Dhi Qar Governorate"> Dhi Qar</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">558,446</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">19</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Samawah" title="Samawah">Samawah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Muthanna_Governorate" title="Muthanna Governorate"> Muthanna</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">221,743 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Amarah" title="Amarah">Amarah</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Maysan_Governorate" title="Maysan Governorate"> Maysan</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">527,472</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">20</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Zakho" title="Zakho">Zakho</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dohuk_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Dohuk Governorate"> Dohuk</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">211,964 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_groups">Ethnic groups</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg/250px-Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg/330px-Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg/500px-Ethnoreligious_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1241" data-file-height="1264" /></a><figcaption><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115" /><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 7em;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend">  Sunni Arabs</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><div class="legend">  Shiite Arabs</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><div class="legend">  Sunni Kurds</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><div class="legend">  Assyrians</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><div class="legend">  Yazidis</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><div class="legend">  Turkmen</div> </div> Map of all majority-group clusters of the country's ethnic groups in large, deliberately grouped, census output areas as at the 2006 to 2008 study </figcaption></figure>As per recent estimates, out of Iraq's total population, 75–80% are <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, 15–20% <a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Iraq" title="Kurds in Iraq">Kurds</a> and 9–13% <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen" title="Iraqi Turkmen">Turkmen</a> (Turcoman).<a href="#cite_note-Bassem2016-312">[309]</a> Remaining includes the <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a> (500,000–700,000), <a href="/wiki/Iranians_in_Iraq" title="Iranians in Iraq">Persians</a> (486,000), Kaka'i (110,000–200,000), <a href="/wiki/Bedouins" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedouins">Bedouins</a> (1,500), <a href="/wiki/Shabaks" title="Shabaks">Shabaks</a> (200,000–500,000), <a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Iraq" title="Assyrians in Iraq">Assyrians</a> (150,000), <a href="/wiki/Doms_in_Iraq" title="Doms in Iraq">Kawliya</a> (50,000–200,000), <a href="/wiki/Circassians_in_Iraq" title="Circassians in Iraq">Circassians</a> (30,000–50,000), <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Armenians" title="Iraqi Armenians">Armenians</a> (20,000), and <a href="/wiki/Chechens_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Chechens in Iraq">Chechens</a> (2,500).<a href="#cite_note-313">[310]</a><a href="#cite_note-314">[311]</a><a href="#cite_note-315">[312]</a> Ethnic groups in Iraq are spread across various regions. According to the <a href="/wiki/The_World_Factbook" title="The World Factbook">CIA World Factbook</a>, citing a 1987 Iraqi government estimate,<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a> the population of Iraq is 75–80% <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arab</a> followed by 15–20% <a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Iraq" title="Kurds in Iraq">Kurds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a> In addition, the estimate claims that other minorities form 5% of the country's population, including the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmens" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Turkmens">Turkmen</a> (Turcoman), <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yezidis" class="mw-redirect" title="Yezidis">Yezidis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shabak_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Shabak people">Shabak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaka%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaka'i">Kaka'i</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedouins" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedouins">Bedouins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gypsies_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Gypsies in Iraq">Roma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Circassians_in_Iraq" title="Circassians in Iraq">Circassians</a>, Mandaeans, and <a href="/wiki/Iranians_in_Iraq" title="Iranians in Iraq">Persians</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cia-3">[3]</a> However, the <a href="/wiki/International_Crisis_Group" title="International Crisis Group">International Crisis Group</a> points out that figures from the 1987 census, as well as the 1967, 1977, and 1997 censuses, "are all considered highly problematic, due to suspicions of regime manipulation" because the Iraqi citizens were only allowed to indicate belonging to either the Arab or Kurdish ethnic groups; consequently, this skewed the number of other ethnic minorities, such as Iraq's third largest ethnic group – the Turkmens in Northern Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-ICG-316">[313]</a><a href="#cite_note-ICG-316">[313]</a><a href="#cite_note-317">[314]</a> Many ethnic groups have faced significant turning points throughout the history of Iraq, specially since 2003. Within Arabs, around 20,000 <a href="/wiki/Marsh_Arabs" title="Marsh Arabs">Marsh Arabs</a> live in southern Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-318">[315]</a> In southern Iraq, <a href="/wiki/Afro_Iraqis" class="mw-redirect" title="Afro Iraqis">there is a community of Iraqis of African</a> descent, a legacy of <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> practiced in the Islamic Caliphate beginning before the <a href="/wiki/Zanj_Rebellion" title="Zanj Rebellion">Zanj Rebellion</a> of the 9th century, and <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a>'s role as a key port.<a href="#cite_note-zanj-319">[316]</a> Kurds primarily inhabit the Kurdistan Region, while Turkmen are mainly found in the Turkmeneli region and Kirkuk. Yazidis are concentrated in Sinjar and <a href="/wiki/Shekhan_District" title="Shekhan District">Shekhan</a> district, and Assyrians, who are predominantly Christian, reside in the Nineveh Plains in Northern Iraq, where they are in majority. Due to Arabisation policies and seizing better opportunities, many moved to big cities like Baghdad and Basra. The historic Assyrian Quarter in Baghdad housed 150,000 Assyrians in 2003. Most of them fled, following the escalation of war, and today only 1,500 Assyrians remained. Smaller groups such as the Kawliya, Circassians, and Armenians are primarily located in Baghdad and other governorates of Iraq. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Iraq" title="Languages of Iraq">Languages of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg/220px-Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg/330px-Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg/440px-Children_puppy_sulaimania.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1808" data-file-height="1436" /></a><figcaption>Children in a village near the city of <a href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah" title="Sulaymaniyah">Sulaymaniyah</a></figcaption></figure> The main languages spoken in Iraq are <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesopotamian Arabic language">Mesopotamian Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a>, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmens#Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Turkmens">Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialect</a> of <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Aramaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Aramaic">Neo-Aramaic</a> languages (specifically <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaldean Neo-Aramaic">Chaldean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian Neo-Aramaic">Assyrian</a> dialects).<a href="#cite_note-320">[317]</a> Arabic and Kurdish are written with versions of the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic script</a>. Since 2005, the Turkmen/Turkoman have switched from the Arabic script to the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish alphabet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Shanks_2016_loc=57-321">[318]</a> In addition, the Neo-Aramaic languages use the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Syriac script">Syriac script</a>. Other smaller minority languages include <a href="/wiki/Mandaic_language" title="Mandaic language">Mandaic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shabaki_language" title="Shabaki language">Shabaki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Circassian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Circassian language">Circassian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>. Prior to the invasion in 2003, <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> was the sole official language. Since the new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Constitution of Iraq</a> was approved in 2005, both Arabic and <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a> are recognised (Article 4) as official languages of Iraq, while three other languages, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmens#Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Turkmens">Turkmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>, are also recognised as <a href="/wiki/Minority_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Minority languages">minority languages</a>. In addition, any region or province may declare other languages official if a majority of the population approves in a general referendum.<a href="#cite_note-Constitution-47">[44]</a> According to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">Constitution of Iraq</a> (Article 4): The Arabic language and the Kurdish language are the two official languages of Iraq. The right of Iraqis to educate their children in their mother tongue, such as Turkmen, Syriac, and Armenian shall be guaranteed in government educational institutions in accordance with educational guidelines, or in any other language in private educational institutions.<a href="#cite_note-Constitution-47">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Iraq" title="Religion in Iraq">Religion in Iraq</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_Iraq" title="Irreligion in Iraq">Irreligion in Iraq</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Iraq" title="Islam in Iraq">Islam in Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Iraq" title="Christianity in Iraq">Christianity in Iraq</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Judaism_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in Iraq">Judaism in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg/220px-Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg/330px-Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg/440px-Shrine_in_Karbala.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>Shrine in Karbala, showing use of <a href="/wiki/Arabesque" title="Arabesque">Arabesque</a></figcaption></figure> Religions in Iraq are dominantly <a href="/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="Abrahamic religions">Abrahamic religions</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-322">[319]</a> The CIA <a href="/wiki/The_World_Factbook" title="The World Factbook">World Factbook</a> estimated in 2015 that between 90 and 95% of Iraqis followed <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, with 61–64% being Shia and 29–34% being Sunni. <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Iraq" title="Christianity in Iraq">Christianity</a> accounted for 1%, and the rest (1-4%) practiced <a href="/wiki/Yazidism" title="Yazidism">Yazidism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism">Mandaeism</a>, and other religions.<a href="#cite_note-:0-322">[319]</a> An older 2011 <a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research</a> estimated that 51% of Muslims in Iraq see themselves as <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a>, 42% as <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a>, while 5% as "just a Muslim".<a href="#cite_note-323">[320]</a> Iraq is also home to two of the holiest places among the Shi'as – <a href="/wiki/Najaf" title="Najaf">Najaf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a>.<a href="#cite_note-324">[321]</a> Shia Muslims are mostly concentrated in southern Iraq and in parts of north region and Baghdad. <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni Muslims">Sunni Muslims</a> are found in the <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Triangle" title="Sunni Triangle">Sunni Triangle region</a>, in cities such as <a href="/wiki/Ramadi" title="Ramadi">Ramadi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tikrit" title="Tikrit">Tikrit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fallujah" title="Fallujah">Fallujah</a>, where Sunnis make majority. <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Iraq" title="Christianity in Iraq">Christianity in Iraq</a> has its roots from the conception of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a> in the 5th century AD, predating the existence of Islam in the region of Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:2-325">[322]</a> Iraqi Christians are predominantly native <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_of_the_East" title="Ancient Church of the East">Ancient Church of the East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church" title="Chaldean Catholic Church">Chaldean Catholic Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Catholic_Church" title="Syriac Catholic Church">Syriac Catholic Church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac Orthodox Church</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-325">[322]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-326">[323]</a> There is also a significant population of <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Christians</a> in Iraq who had fled <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-325">[322]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-326">[323]</a> Christians numbered over 1.4 million in 1987 or 8% of the estimated population of 16.3 million and 550,000 in 1947 or 12% of the population of 4.6 millions.<a href="#cite_note-327">[324]</a> After the 2003 <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Iraq">invasion of Iraq</a>, violence against Christians rose, with reports of abduction, torture, bombings, and killings.<a href="#cite_note-besieged-328">[325]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-329">[326]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-326">[323]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">post-2003 war</a> has displaced much of the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_exodus_from_Iraq" title="Assyrian exodus from Iraq">remaining Christian community from their homeland</a> as a result of ethnic and religious persecution at the hands of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_extremism" title="Islamic extremism">Islamic extremists</a>.<a href="#cite_note-330">[327]</a><a href="#cite_note-331">[328]</a><a href="#cite_note-332">[329]</a><a href="#cite_note-333">[330]</a><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph-1-334">[331]</a> Iraq is home to one of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq" title="History of the Jews in Iraq">oldest Jewish communities in the Middle East</a> and the first Jewish diaspora.<a href="#cite_note-:1-335">[332]</a> In 1948, the Jewish population was estimated at 200,000, although some sources suggest the population may have been even higher.<a href="#cite_note-:1-335">[332]</a> After the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> in 1948, Jews emigrated, <a href="/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world" title="Jewish exodus from the Muslim world">fleeing persecution in Iraq</a>, while 100,000 of them remained.<a href="#cite_note-336">[333]</a> By the time Saddam Hussein came to power, their population had reached 15,000.<a href="#cite_note-:18-337">[334]</a><a href="#cite_note-:19-338">[335]</a> Under his rule, the population dwindled—not due to persecution, but because the government lifted travel restrictions, allowing many Jews to emigrate abroad and visiting Iraq occasionally.<a href="#cite_note-:17-339">[336]</a> At this point, around 1,500 Jews remained.<a href="#cite_note-:16-340">[337]</a> After 2003, fear among the Jewish community increased, leading to their further decline.<a href="#cite_note-:20-341">[338]</a> Today, it is estimated that only around 400 Jews remain in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-:21-342">[339]</a> Iraq is home to over <a href="/wiki/List_of_Jewish_sites_in_Iraq" title="List of Jewish sites in Iraq">250 Jewish sites</a>. There are also small <a href="/wiki/Ethno-religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethno-religious">ethno-religious</a> minority populations of <a href="/wiki/Mandaeans" title="Mandaeans">Mandaeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shabaks" title="Shabaks">Shabaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yarsan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yarsan">Yarsan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yezidi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yezidi">Yezidis</a> remaining.<a href="#cite_note-:3-329">[326]</a> Prior to 2003 their numbers together may have been 2 million, the majority Yarsan, a non-Islamic religion with roots in pre-Islamic and pre-Christian religion.<a href="#cite_note-:3-329">[326]</a> Yazidis are mostly concentrated around the <a href="/wiki/Sinjar_Mountains" title="Sinjar Mountains">Sinjar Mountains</a>.<a href="#cite_note-343">[340]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-329">[326]</a> Mandaeans live primarily around Baghdad, Fallujah, Basra and <a href="/wiki/Hillah" title="Hillah">Hillah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-344">[341]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-329">[326]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Diaspora_and_refugees">Diaspora and refugees</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_Iraq" title="Refugees of Iraq">Refugees of Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_exodus_from_Iraq" title="Assyrian exodus from Iraq">Assyrian exodus from Iraq</a></div> The dispersion of native Iraqis to other countries is known as the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_diaspora" title="Iraqi diaspora">Iraqi diaspora</a>. The <a href="/wiki/UN_High_Commission_for_Refugees" class="mw-redirect" title="UN High Commission for Refugees">UN High Commission for Refugees</a> has estimated that nearly two million Iraqis fled the country after the <a href="/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq" title="Multi-National Force – Iraq">multinational</a> invasion of Iraq in 2003.<a href="#cite_note-345">[342]</a> The UN Refugee agency estimated in 2021 that 1.1 million were displaced within the country.<a href="#cite_note-346">[343]</a> In 2007, the UN said that about 40% of Iraq's middle class was believed to have fled and that most had fled systematic persecution and had no desire to return.<a href="#cite_note-347">[344]</a> Subsequently, the diaspora seemed to be returning, as security improved; the Iraqi government claimed that 46,000 refugees returned to their homes in October 2007 alone.<a href="#cite_note-348">[345]</a> In 2011, nearly 3 million Iraqis had been displaced, with 1.3 million within Iraq and 1.6 million in neighbouring countries, mainly Jordan and Syria.<a href="#cite_note-349">[346]</a><a href="#cite_note-:7-350">[347]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-351">[348]</a> More than half of Iraqi Christians had fled the country since the US-led invasion.<a href="#cite_note-:7-350">[347]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-351">[348]</a> According to official <a href="/wiki/United_States_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Services" title="United States Citizenship and Immigration Services">US Citizenship and Immigration Services</a> statistics, 58,811 Iraqis had been granted refugee-status citizenship as of 25 May 2011<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iraq&action=edit">[update]</a>.<a href="#cite_note-352">[349]</a> After the start of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a> in 2011, numerous Iraqis in Syria returned to their native country.<a href="#cite_note-353">[350]</a> To escape the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>, over 252,000 <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Refugees of the Syrian civil war">Syrian refugees</a> of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012.<a href="#cite_note-354">[351]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health">Health</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Health_in_Iraq" title="Health in Iraq">Health in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png/250px-Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png/330px-Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png/500px-Babil_Teaching_Hospital.png 2x" data-file-width="1841" data-file-height="1295" /></a><figcaption>Babil Teaching Hospital for Maternity and Pediatrics</figcaption></figure> In 2010, spending on healthcare accounted for 6.84% of the country's GDP. In 2008, there were 6.96 physicians and 13.92 nurses per 10,000 inhabitants.<a href="#cite_note-355">[352]</a> The life expectancy at birth was 68.49 years in 2010, or 65.13 years for males and 72.01 years for females.<a href="#cite_note-356">[353]</a> This is down from a peak life expectancy of 71.31 years in 1996.<a href="#cite_note-357">[354]</a> Iraq had developed a centralised free health care system in the 1970s using a hospital based, capital-intensive model of <a href="/wiki/Curative_care" title="Curative care">curative care</a>.<a href="#cite_note-corpwatch-358">[355]</a> The country depended on large-scale imports of medicines, medical equipment and even nurses, paid for with oil export income, according to a "Watching Brief" report issued jointly by the <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNICEF">UN Children's Fund</a> (UNICEF) and the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">WHO</a> in July 2003.<a href="#cite_note-corpwatch-358">[355]</a> Unlike other poorer countries, which focused on mass health care using primary care practitioners, Iraq developed a Westernised system of sophisticated hospitals with advanced medical procedures, provided by specialist physicians.<a href="#cite_note-corpwatch-358">[355]</a> The UNICEF/WHO report noted that prior to 1990, 97% of the urban dwellers and 71% of the rural population had access to free primary health care; just 2% of hospital beds were privately managed.<a href="#cite_note-corpwatch-358">[355]</a> In 2024, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Shia%27_Al_Sudani" title="Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani">Mohammed Shi'a Al-Sudani</a> officially inaugurated Shaab General Hospital, Baghdad's first new general hospital in nearly 40 years.<a href="#cite_note-:22-359">[356]</a> The 246-bed facility, which was a long-delayed project was completed under a collaborative management model, which boasts state-of-the-art infrastructure, with advanced medical equipment, and a full range of healthcare services according to Sudani.<a href="#cite_note-:22-359">[356]</a> Minister of Health Salih Hasnawi highlighted the ministry's accomplishments over the past two years, including the construction of 13 new hospitals, three specialised centres, two burn units, and 25 kidney treatment centres in different governorates, while plans are in place to build 16 new hospitals, each with 100 beds, to be managed by qualified companies.<a href="#cite_note-360">[357]</a><a href="#cite_note-361">[358]</a> In the same year, the government launched the implementation of a joint operation and management programme for modern hospitals at the newly opened Najaf Teaching Hospital.<a href="#cite_note-362">[359]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Iraq" title="Education in Iraq">Education in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg/220px-Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg/330px-Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg/440px-Wikipedia_Education_Program_Workshop-_American_University_in_Iraq-_Sullaimaniya_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6016" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>University students in Iraq, 2016</figcaption></figure> Before 1990 and later 2003, Iraq already had an advanced and successful education system.<a href="#cite_note-de_Santisteban-2005-363">[360]</a> However, it has now been "de-developing" in its educational success.<a href="#cite_note-de_Santisteban-2005-363">[360]</a> During his rule, Saddam turned Iraq into a leading centre of higher education.<a href="#cite_note-de_Santisteban-2005-363">[360]</a> Since the implementation of the MDGs, education has shown improvement in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-de_Santisteban-2005-363">[360]</a> Enrollment numbers nearly doubled from 2000 to 2012, reaching six million students.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> By 2015–2016, around 9.2 million children were attending school, with a steady annual increase of 4.1% in enrollment rates.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> However, the rapid increase in primary education students has strained the system.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Education receives only 5.7% of government spending, leading to a lack of investment in schools and poor educational rankings in the region.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> UNICEF found that funding has been wasted, resulting in increasing dropout and repetition rates.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Dropout rates range from 1.5% to 2.5%, with girls being affected more due to economic or family reasons. Repetition rates have reached almost 17%, causing a loss of approximately 20% of education funding in 2014–2015.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Regional disparities greatly impact enrollment rates for children in primary education in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Conflict-ridden areas like Saladin Governorate have seen over 90% of school-age children out of school due to the conversion of schools into shelters or military bases.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Limited resources strain the education system, hindering access to education.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> However, efforts have been made to reopen closed schools, with success seen in Mosul, where over 380,000 children are back in school.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> Access to education varies depending on location, and there are disparities between boys and girls.<a href="#cite_note-unicef.org-364">[361]</a> In 2024, the government inaugurated 790 new schools across the country, as part of a framework agreement with China to build 1,000 schools. This initiative aims to address overcrowding and the issue of triple shifts in schools, which have been exacerbated by the destruction caused by years of conflict.<a href="#cite_note-:29-365">[362]</a> Many schools have had to operate multiple shifts, sometimes giving students as little as four hours of learning per day, which negatively affects educational outcomes.<a href="#cite_note-:29-365">[362]</a><a href="#cite_note-:30-366">[363]</a> The school construction project stems from a 2021 agreement between the Iraqi and Chinese governments to build 1,000 schools. Additionally, the Iraqi Prime Minister announced that the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) will soon collaborate with the private sector to build 400 more schools, addressing the current shortage of over 8,000 schools in the country.<a href="#cite_note-:29-365">[362]</a><a href="#cite_note-:30-366">[363]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Iraq" title="Culture of Iraq">Culture of Iraq</a></div> Iraq's culture has a deep heritage that extends back in time to ancient Mesopotamian culture. Iraq has one of the longest written traditions in the world including <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">painting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weaving" title="Weaving">weaving</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pottery" title="Pottery">pottery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligraphy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stonemasonry" title="Stonemasonry">stonemasonry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metalworking" title="Metalworking">metalworking</a>. The culture of Iraq or Mesopotamia is one of the world's oldest <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultural</a> histories and is considered one of the most influential cultures in the world. Mesopotamian legacy went on to influence and shape the civilisations of the <a href="/wiki/Old_World" title="Old World">Old World</a> in different ways such as inventing <a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">writing system</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_mathematics" title="History of mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_calendar" title="Babylonian calendar">calendar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_astrology" title="Babylonian astrology">astrology</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu" title="Code of Ur-Nammu">law code</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopædia_Britannica-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-World_History_Encyclopedia-21">[18]</a> Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups that have each contributed in different ways to the country's long and rich heritage. The country is known for its poets, architects, painters and sculptors, who are among the best in the region, some of them being world-class. Iraq is known for producing fine <a href="/wiki/Handicrafts" class="mw-redirect" title="Handicrafts">handicrafts</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Carpet" title="Carpet">rugs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carpets" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpets">carpets</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Art_of_Mesopotamia" title="Art of Mesopotamia">Art of Mesopotamia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_art" title="Iraqi art">Iraqi art</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Wasiti-Discussion_near_a_village.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Al-Wasiti-Discussion_near_a_village.jpg/250px-Al-Wasiti-Discussion_near_a_village.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Al-Wasiti-Discussion_near_a_village.jpg/330px-Al-Wasiti-Discussion_near_a_village.jpg 2x" data-file-width="490" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Yahya_ibn_Mahmud_al-Wasiti" title="Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti">Wasiti</a>'s illustrations served as an inspiration for the modern Baghdad art movement in the 20th-century.<a href="#cite_note-367">[364]</a></figcaption></figure> There were several interconnected traditions of art in ancient Iraq. The <a href="/wiki/Abbasid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid">Abbasid</a> Dynasty developed in the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> between 750 and 945, primarily in its heartland of <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>. The Abbasids were influenced mainly by <a href="/wiki/Art_of_Mesopotamia" title="Art of Mesopotamia">Mesopotamian art traditions</a> and later influenced <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_architecture" title="Sasanian architecture">Persian</a> as well as Central Asian styles. Between the 8th and 13th centuries during the Abbasid period, pottery achieved a high level of sophistication, calligraphy began to be used to decorate the surface of decorative objects and illuminated manuscripts, particularly <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Q'ranic</a> texts became more complex and stylised. Iraq's first art school was established during this period, allowing artisans and crafts to flourish.<a href="#cite_note-368">[365]</a> At the height of the Abbasid period, in the late 12th century, a stylistic movement of manuscript illustration and calligraphy emerged. Now known as the <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_School" title="Baghdad School">Baghdad School</a>, this movement of Islamic art was characterised by representations of everyday life and the use of highly expressive faces rather than the stereotypical characters that had been used in the past.<a href="#cite_note-Online-369">[366]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Iraq" title="Architecture of Iraq">Architecture of Iraq</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zaha_Hadid_in_Heydar_Aliyev_Cultural_center_in_Baku_nov_2013_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Zaha_Hadid_in_Heydar_Aliyev_Cultural_center_in_Baku_nov_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-Zaha_Hadid_in_Heydar_Aliyev_Cultural_center_in_Baku_nov_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Zaha_Hadid_in_Heydar_Aliyev_Cultural_center_in_Baku_nov_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Zaha_Hadid_in_Heydar_Aliyev_Cultural_center_in_Baku_nov_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="394" data-file-height="566" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Zaha_Hadid" title="Zaha Hadid">Zaha Hadid</a> (1950–2016), an acclaimed architect</figcaption></figure> The architecture of Iraq has a long history, encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC and features both the <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Mesopotamia" title="Architecture of Mesopotamia">Mesopotamian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_architecture" title="Abbasid architecture">Abbasid architecture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:24-370">[367]</a> Baghdad and Mosul have plethora of cultural and heritage buildings. There are numerous <a href="/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_Baghdad" title="List of mosques in Baghdad">historic mosques in Baghdad</a> and Basra, <a href="/wiki/List_of_churches_and_monasteries_in_Nineveh" title="List of churches and monasteries in Nineveh">old churches in Mosul</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Jewish_sites_in_Iraq" title="List of Jewish sites in Iraq">synagogues in Baghdad</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:24-370">[367]</a> Modern prominent architects include <a href="/wiki/Zaha_Hadid" title="Zaha Hadid">Zaha Hadid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basil_Al_Bayati" title="Basil Al Bayati">Basil Bayati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rifat_Chadirji" title="Rifat Chadirji">Rifat Chadirji</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hisham_N._Ashkouri" title="Hisham N. Ashkouri">Hisham N. Ashkouri</a> among others.<a href="#cite_note-:24-370">[367]</a> The capital, Ninus or <a href="/wiki/Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a>, was taken by the <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Medes</a> under <a href="/wiki/Cyaxares" title="Cyaxares">Cyaxares</a>, and some 200 years after <a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a> passed over its site, then mere mounds of earth. It remained buried until 1845, when Botta and <a href="/wiki/Austen_Henry_Layard" title="Austen Henry Layard">Layard</a> discovered the ruins of the Assyrian cities. The principal remains are those of <a href="/wiki/Khorsabad" class="mw-redirect" title="Khorsabad">Khorsabad</a>, 16 km (10 mi) northeast of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a>; of Nimroud, supposed to be the ancient Calah; and of Kouyunjik, in all probability the ancient Nineveh. In these cities are found fragments of several great buildings which seem to have been palace-temples. They were constructed chiefly of <a href="/wiki/Mudbrick" title="Mudbrick">sun-dried bricks</a>, and all that remains of them is the lower part of the walls, decorated with sculpture and paintings, portions of the pavements, a few indications of the elevation, and some works connected with the drainage. Recent years modern buildings includes shopping malls and high-rise towers. Important cultural institutions in the capital include the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_National_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra">Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra</a> – rehearsals and performances were briefly interrupted during the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Iraq_(2003%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Iraq (2003–2011)">occupation of Iraq</a> but have since returned to normal.<a href="#cite_note-371">[368]</a> The National Theatre of Iraq was looted during the 2003 invasion, but efforts are underway to restore it. The live theatre scene received a boost during the 1990s when UN sanctions limited the import of foreign films. As many as 30 cinemas were reported to have been converted to live stages, producing a wide range of comedies and dramatic productions.<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg/220px-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg/330px-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg/440px-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B6%D8%B1_2_-_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5101" data-file-height="3247" /></a><figcaption>Facade of Temple at <a href="/wiki/Hatra" title="Hatra">Hatra</a> near Mosul was declared <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> in 1985<a href="#cite_note-372">[369]</a></figcaption></figure> Institutions offering cultural education in Baghdad include the Academy of Music, Institute of Fine Arts and the <a href="/wiki/Music_and_Ballet_school_Baghdad" class="mw-redirect" title="Music and Ballet school Baghdad">Music and Ballet School Baghdad</a>. Baghdad also features a number of museums including the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museum of Iraq">National Museum of Iraq</a> – which houses the world's largest and finest collection of artefacts and relics of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Iraq">Ancient Iraqi</a> civilisations; some of which were <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_looting_in_Iraq" title="Archaeological looting in Iraq">stolen</a> during the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Iraq_(2003%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Iraq (2003–2011)">occupation of Iraq</a>. On 2021, it was announced that Iraq had reclaimed about 17,000 looted artefacts, which was considered to be the biggest repatriation.<a href="#cite_note-373">[370]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_literature" title="Akkadian literature">Akkadian literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_literature" title="Sumerian literature">Sumerian literature</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_literature" title="Iraqi literature">Iraqi literature</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cuneiform_script.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Cuneiform_script.jpg/170px-Cuneiform_script.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Cuneiform_script.jpg/255px-Cuneiform_script.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Cuneiform_script.jpg/340px-Cuneiform_script.jpg 2x" data-file-width="921" data-file-height="1563" /></a><figcaption>An Akkadian inscription</figcaption></figure> The literature in Iraq is often referred to as "Mesopotamian literature" due to the flourishing of various civilisations as a result of the mixture of these cultures and has been called Mesopotamian or Babylonian literature in allusion to the geographical territory that such cultures occupied in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> between the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.<a href="#cite_note-374">[371]</a> The Sumerian literature was unique because it does not belong to any known linguistic root. Its appearance began with symbols of the things denoting it, then it turned with time to the cuneiform line on tablets. The literature during this time were mainly about mythical and epic texts dealing with creation issues, the emergence of the world, the gods, descriptions of the heavens, and the lives of heroes in the wars that broke out between the nomads and the urbanites. They also deal with religious teachings, moral advice, astrology, legislation, and history. One of which was the <a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a>, which is regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature.<a href="#cite_note-375">[372]</a> During the Abbasid Caliphate, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Wisdom" title="House of Wisdom">House of Wisdom</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, which was a public academy and intellectual fulcrum, hosted numerous scholars and writers. A number of stories in <a href="/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">One Thousand and One Nights</a> feature famous Abbasid figures.<a href="#cite_note-376">[373]</a> Iraq has various medieval poets, most remarkably <a href="/wiki/Al-Hariri_of_Basra" title="Al-Hariri of Basra">Hariri of Basra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al-Mutanabbi" title="Al-Mutanabbi">Mutanabbi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abu_Nuwas" title="Abu Nuwas">Abu Nuwas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Al-Jahiz" title="Al-Jahiz">Al-Jahiz</a>. In modern times, various languages are used in Iraqi literature including Arabic, <a href="/wiki/Neo-Aramaic_languages" title="Neo-Aramaic languages">Neo-Aramaic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish languages">Kurdish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, although the Arabic literature remains the most influential literature. Notably poets include <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Mahdi_al-Jawahiri" title="Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri">Jawahiri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Safa_Khulusi" title="Safa Khulusi">Safa Khulusi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dunya_Mikhail" title="Dunya Mikhail">Dunya Mikhail</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Iraq" title="Music of Iraq">Music of Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg/250px-The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg/330px-The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg/500px-The_Queen%27s_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3536" data-file-height="4016" /></a><figcaption>The Queen's gold <a href="/wiki/Lyres_of_Ur" title="Lyres of Ur">lyre</a> from the Royal Cemetery at <a href="/wiki/Ur" title="Ur">Ur</a>. <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Museum" title="Iraq Museum">Iraq Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a></figcaption></figure> Iraq is known primarily for its rich <a href="/wiki/Arabian_maqam" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabian maqam">maqam</a> heritage which has been passed down orally by the masters of the maqam in an unbroken chain of transmission leading up to the present. The <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_maqam" title="Iraqi maqam">Iraqi maqam</a> is considered to be the most noble and perfect form of maqam. Al-maqam al-Iraqi is the collection of sung poems written either in one of the 16 meters of classical Arabic or in Iraqi dialect (Zuhayri).<a href="#cite_note-377">[374]</a> This form of art is recognised by UNESCO as "an intangible heritage of humanity".<a href="#cite_note-378">[375]</a> Early in the 20th century, many of the most prominent musicians in Iraq were <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jewish</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a> In 1936, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Iraq_Radio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iraq Radio (page does not exist)">Iraq Radio</a> was established with an ensemble made up entirely of <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, with the exception of the percussion player.<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a> At the nightclubs of Baghdad, ensembles consisted of oud, qanun and two percussionists, while the same format with a <a href="/wiki/Ney" title="Ney">ney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cello</a> were used on the radio.<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a> The most famous singer of the 1930s–1940s was perhaps <a href="/wiki/Salima_Pasha" title="Salima Pasha">Salima Pasha</a> (later Salima Murad).<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a><a href="#cite_note-Manasseh-380">[377]</a> The respect and adoration for Pasha were unusual at the time since public performance by women was considered shameful.<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a> The most famous early composer from Iraq was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ezra_Aharon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ezra Aharon (page does not exist)">Ezra Aharon</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Oud" title="Oud">oud</a> player, while the most prominent instrumentalist was <a href="/wiki/Yusuf_Za%27arur" title="Yusuf Za'arur">Yusuf Za'arur</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Za'arus formed the official ensemble for the Iraqi radio station and were responsible for introducing the cello and ney into the traditional ensemble.<a href="#cite_note-Kojaman-379">[376]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Media_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Iraq">Media of Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Television_in_Iraq" title="Television in Iraq">Television in Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Iraq" title="Cinema of Iraq">Cinema of Iraq</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Iraqi_films" title="List of Iraqi films">List of Iraqi films</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Al-Iraq,_Number_5,_June_5,_1920_WDL10101.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf/page1-170px-Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf/page1-255px-Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf/page1-340px-Al-Iraq%2C_Number_5%2C_June_5%2C_1920_WDL10101.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2710" data-file-height="3750" /></a><figcaption>An image showing a page from Iraq newspaper, 5 June 1920</figcaption></figure> Iraq was home to the second television station in the Middle East, which began during the 1950s. As part of a plan to help Iraq modernise, English telecommunications company <a href="/wiki/Pye_Ltd." class="mw-redirect" title="Pye Ltd.">Pye Limited</a> built and commissioned a television broadcast station in the capital city of Baghdad.<a href="#cite_note-381">[378]</a> After the end of the full state control in 2003, there was a period of significant growth in the broadcast media in Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-382">[379]</a> By 2003, according to a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> report, there were 20 radio stations from 0.15 to 17 television stations owned by Iraqis, and 200 Iraqi newspapers owned and operated. Iraqi media expert and author of a number of reports on this subject, Ibrahim Al Marashi, identifies four stages of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 where they had been taking the steps that have significant effects on the way for the later of the Iraqi media since then. Stages are: pre-invasion preparation, and the war and the actual choice of targets, the first post-war period, and a growing insurgency and hand over power to the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG) and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Iyad_Allawi" class="mw-redirect" title="Iyad Allawi">Iyad Allawi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-383">[380]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_cuisine" title="Iraqi cuisine">Iraqi cuisine</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MosulDolma.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/MosulDolma.jpg/250px-MosulDolma.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/MosulDolma.jpg/330px-MosulDolma.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/MosulDolma.jpg/500px-MosulDolma.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="424" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dolma" title="Dolma">Dolma</a>, a popular Iraqi dish</figcaption></figure> Iraqi cuisine can be traced back some 10,000 years – to the <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_Empire" title="Akkadian Empire">Akkadians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyrians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Ancient Persians</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> <a href="/wiki/Clay_tablet" title="Clay tablet">Tablets</a> found in ancient ruins in Iraq show recipes prepared in the temples during religious festivals – the first cookbooks in the world.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Iraq">Ancient Iraq</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>, was home to many sophisticated and highly advanced civilisations, in all fields of knowledge – including the culinary arts.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> However, it was in the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age">medieval era</a> when Baghdad was the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> that the Iraqi kitchen reached its zenith.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> Today the cuisine of Iraq reflects this rich inheritance as well as strong influences from the culinary traditions of neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Syria">Greater Syria</a> area.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> Some characteristic ingredients of Iraqi cuisine include – vegetables such as <a href="/wiki/Aubergine" class="mw-redirect" title="Aubergine">aubergine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tomato" title="Tomato">tomato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Okra" title="Okra">okra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onion" title="Onion">onion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Potato" title="Potato">potato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Courgette" class="mw-redirect" title="Courgette">courgette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garlic" title="Garlic">garlic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bell_pepper" title="Bell pepper">peppers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chili_pepper" title="Chili pepper">chilli</a>, cereals such as <a href="/wiki/Rice" title="Rice">rice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgur" title="Bulgur">bulgur</a> <a href="/wiki/Wheat" title="Wheat">wheat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barley" title="Barley">barley</a>, pulses and legumes such as <a href="/wiki/Lentils" class="mw-redirect" title="Lentils">lentils</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickpeas" class="mw-redirect" title="Chickpeas">chickpeas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cannellini#White_beans" class="mw-redirect" title="Cannellini">cannellini</a>, fruits such as <a href="/wiki/Date_Palm#Dates" class="mw-redirect" title="Date Palm">dates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raisin" title="Raisin">raisins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apricot" title="Apricot">apricots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_fig" class="mw-redirect" title="Common fig">figs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grape" title="Grape">grapes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melon" title="Melon">melon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pomegranate" title="Pomegranate">pomegranate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Citrus" title="Citrus">citrus fruits</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/Lemon" title="Lemon">lemon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lime_(fruit)" title="Lime (fruit)">lime</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> Similarly with other countries of <a href="/wiki/Western_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Asia">Western Asia</a>, chicken and especially lamb are the favourite meats. Most dishes are served with rice – usually <a href="/wiki/Basmati" title="Basmati">Basmati</a>, grown in the <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes" title="Mesopotamian Marshes">marshes</a> of southern Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bulgur" title="Bulgur">Bulgur</a> wheat is used in many dishes, having been a staple in the country since the days of the <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Ancient Assyrians</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Salloum-384">[381]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport">Sport</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Iraq" title="Sport in Iraq">Sport in Iraq</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG/220px-Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG/330px-Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG/440px-Basra_International_Stadium_Opening.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Basra_International_Stadium" title="Basra International Stadium">Basra International Stadium</a> at its opening</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> is the most popular sport in Iraq. <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swimming_(sport)" title="Swimming (sport)">swimming</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting" title="Olympic weightlifting">weightlifting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bodybuilding" title="Bodybuilding">bodybuilding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kick_boxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Kick boxing">kick boxing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a> are also popular sports. The <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Football_Association" title="Iraq Football Association">Iraq Football Association</a> is the governing body of football in Iraq, controlling the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_national_football_team" title="Iraq national football team">Iraq national football team</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Stars_League" title="Iraq Stars League">Iraq Stars League</a>. It was founded in 1948, and has been a member of <a href="/wiki/FIFA" title="FIFA">FIFA</a> since 1950 and the <a href="/wiki/Asian_Football_Confederation" title="Asian Football Confederation">Asian Football Confederation</a> since 1971. Iraq were champions of the <a href="/wiki/2007_AFC_Asian_Cup" title="2007 AFC Asian Cup">2007 AFC Asian Cup</a>, and they participated in the <a href="/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1986 FIFA World Cup">1986 FIFA World Cup</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2009_FIFA_Confederations_Cup" title="2009 FIFA Confederations Cup">2009 FIFA Confederations Cup</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Iraq" title="Outline of Iraq">Outline of Iraq</a><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> The Federation Council is envisioned by article 65 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Iraq" title="Constitution of Iraq">constitution</a> as a upper house but has never convened, meaning the legislature de-facto practices as a <a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">unicameral</a> system solely under the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq" title="Council of Representatives of Iraq">Council of Representatives</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: ٱلْعِرَاق, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: al-ʿIrāq; <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a>: عێراق, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Kurdish" title="Romanization of Kurdish">romanized</a>: Êraq, <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Aramaic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Aramaic language">Imperial Aramaic</a>: ܥܝܪܐܩ </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: جُمْهُورِيَّة ٱلْعِرَاق <span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/3\/3a\/Ar-Jumh%C5%ABriyyat_al-%E2%80%98Ir%C4%81q.oga\/Ar-Jumh%C5%ABriyyat_al-%E2%80%98Ir%C4%81q.oga.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","label":{"html":"Jumh\u016briyya al-\u02bfIr\u0101q"},"data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Ar-Jumh\u016briyyat al-\u2018Ir\u0101q.oga"},"classes":["noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/Ar-Jumh%C5%ABriyyat_al-%E2%80%98Ir%C4%81q.oga/Ar-Jumh%C5%ABriyyat_al-%E2%80%98Ir%C4%81q.oga.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button">Jumhūriyya al-ʿIrāq</a><a href="/wiki/File:Ar-Jumh%C5%ABriyyat_al-%E2%80%98Ir%C4%81q.oga" title="File:Ar-Jumhūriyyat al-‘Irāq.oga">ⓘ</a>; <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a>: کۆماری عێراق, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Kurdish" title="Romanization of Kurdish">romanized</a>: Komarî Êraq </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://iq.parliament.iq/ku/ده-ستور/">"دەستووری کۆماری عێراق"</a> (in Kurdish). 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The Aramaic and Arabic root of IRQ and URQ denotes rivers or tributaries at the same times referring to condensation (of water).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sumerian+Lexicon&rft.date=2000&rft.aulast=Halloran&rft.aufirst=John+A.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsumerian.org%2Fsumerlex.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIraq" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a> Wilhelm Eilers (1983). "Iran and Mesopotamia". In E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> "often said to be from Arabic araqa, covering notions such as "perspiring, deeply rooted, well-watered", which may reflect the impression the lush river-land made on desert Arabs. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=iraq">etymonline.com</a>; see also "<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRassam2005" class="citation book cs1">Rassam, Suha (31 October 2005). Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. 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(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; <a href="/wiki/DjVu" title="DjVu">DjVu</a> & <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050906060015/http://fax.libs.uga.edu/DS49x2xW684B/1f/desert_ways_to_baghdad.pdf">layered PDF</a> format).</li> <li>Benjamin Busch, "'Today is Better than Tomorrow'. A Marine returns to a divided Iraq", <a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a>, October 2014, pp. 29–44.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/notes/2009/N3248.pdf">Global Arms Exports to Iraq 1960–1990, Rand Research report</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLyman2006" class="citation book cs1">Lyman, Robert (2006). Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad. Campaign. 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Tauris</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85771-764-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85771-764-1"><bdi>978-0-85771-764-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Understanding+Iraq&rft.pub=I.B.+Tauris&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-85771-764-1&rft.aulast=Polk&rft.aufirst=William+Roe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIraq" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSimons1996" class="citation book cs1">Simons, Geoff (1996). Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam. <a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Press" title="St. Martin's Press">St. Martin's Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-16052-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-16052-4"><bdi>978-0-312-16052-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Iraq%3A+From+Sumer+to+Saddam&rft.pub=St.+Martin%27s+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-312-16052-4&rft.aulast=Simons&rft.aufirst=Geoff&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIraq" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316" /><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFIraqi_Constitution" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161128152712/http://www.iraqinationality.gov.iq/attach/iraqi_constitution.pdf">"Iraqi Constitution"</a> (PDF). Ministry of Interior – General Directorate For Nationality. 30 January 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iraqinationality.gov.iq/attach/iraqi_constitution.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Iraqi+Constitution&rft.pub=Ministry+of+Interior+%E2%80%93+General+Directorate+For+Nationality&rft.date=2006-01-30&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iraqinationality.gov.iq%2Fattach%2Firaqi_constitution.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIraq" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFTripp2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Charles_R._H._Tripp" title="Charles R. H. Tripp">Tripp, Charles R. H.</a> (2002). A History of Iraq. <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-87823-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-87823-4"><bdi>978-0-521-87823-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Iraq&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-521-87823-4&rft.aulast=Tripp&rft.aufirst=Charles+R.+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIraq" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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title="Isin-Larsa period">Isin-Larsa period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Babylonian_Empire" title="Old Babylonian Empire">First Babylonian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Assyrian_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Assyrian Period">Old Assyrian Period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Assyrian_Empire" title="Middle Assyrian Empire">Middle Assyrian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kassites" title="Kassites">Kassite dynasty of the Babylonian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simurrum" title="Simurrum">Simurrum culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire" title="Neo-Assyrian Empire">Neo-Assyrian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire" title="Neo-Babylonian Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Babylon" title="Fall of Babylon">Fall of Babylon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Assyria" title="Achaemenid Assyria">Achaemenid Assyria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Babylonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Babylonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asoristan" title="Asoristan">Sassanid Asorestan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.2em;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">638–1958</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Persia" title="Muslim conquest of Persia">Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:5.2em;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Republic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Republic_(1958%E2%80%931968)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)">1958–1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba%27athist_Iraq" title="Ba'athist Iraq">1968–2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Iraq_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)">2003–2011</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2011–present</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region">Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party_(Iraqi-dominated_faction)" title="Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)">National Command</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_conflict" title="Iraqi–Kurdish conflict">Iraqi–Kurdish conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_Shatt_al-Arab_conflict" title="1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict">1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Shia_uprising_in_Iraq" title="1977 Shia uprising in Iraq">1977 Shia uprising in Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979%E2%80%931980_Shia_uprising_in_Iraq" title="1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq">1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iraq and weapons of mass destruction">Weapons of mass destruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Opera" title="Operation Opera">Operation Opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Kuwait">Invasion of Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings" title="1991 Iraqi uprisings">1991 uprisings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Iraq">Sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">U.S. invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)">Iraqi insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">U.S. troop withdrawal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2011%E2%80%932013)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)">Insurgency (2011–2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017)" title="War in Iraq (2013–2017)">War (2014–2017)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul" title="Fall of Mosul">Fall of Mosul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%932017)" title="Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)">Mosul liberation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_insurgency_in_Iraq_(2017%E2%80%93present)" title="Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)">Insurgency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Iraqi_protests" title="2019–2021 Iraqi protests">2019–2021 protests</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Iraqi_political_crisis" title="2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis">2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Geography583" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Iraq" title="Geography of Iraq">Geography</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Faw_peninsula" title="Al-Faw peninsula">Faw peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Mesopotamia" title="Upper Mesopotamia">Upper Mesopotamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Mesopotamia" title="Lower Mesopotamia">Lower Mesopotamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Borders_of_Iraq" title="Template:Borders of Iraq">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates river</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamrin_Mountains" title="Hamrin Mountains">Hamrin Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan" title="Iraqi Kurdistan">Iraqi Kurdistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Lakes_of_Iraq" title="Category:Lakes of Iraq">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Iraq" title="List of islands of Iraq">Islands</a></li> 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title="Qatar">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suriname" title="Suriname">Suriname</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Togo" title="Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkmenistan" title="Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Suspended</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syria_and_the_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Syria and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Syria and OIC</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Observers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;padding-right:0.75em;font-weight:normal;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Countries and territories</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Cyprus" title="Northern Cyprus">Northern Cyprus</a>1</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;padding-right:0.75em;font-weight:normal;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Muslim communities</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moro_National_Liberation_Front" title="Moro National Liberation Front">Moro 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Declarations195" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Declarations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abuja_Declaration_(1989)" title="Abuja Declaration (1989)">Abuja Declaration (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam" title="Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam">Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OIC_Resolution_10/11" title="OIC Resolution 10/11">OIC Resolution 10/11</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OIC_Council_of_Foreign_Ministers_Resolution_10/37" title="OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37">OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sessions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Extraordinary748" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Extraordinary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="First Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Second Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Third Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Third</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Fourth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Fifth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Fifth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Sixth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Seventh Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Seventh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Eighth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Eighth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Ninth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Arab%E2%80%93Islamic_extraordinary_summit" title="2023 Arab–Islamic extraordinary summit">Arab–Islamic (2023)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Demographics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Economy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Economy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation_member_states_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states by GDP (PPP)">GDP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation_member_states_by_GDP_per_capita_(PPP)" 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