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    Hit or Heet (Arabic: هيت, Hīt) is an Iraqi city in Al Anbar Governorate. Hit lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital. Straddling the Euphrates...
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    Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. With a population of over 46...
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  • Qasr-e Qand, a village in Iran Hit Rural District, Iraq Hit, Iraq, a town Hit District, a district centered on the town Hit, Syria Health information technology...
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  • supportan offensive by Iraqi forces to take the Islamic State-held city of Hīt, Iraq. The coalition made 17 airstrikes in the Hīt area preparing for the...
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    The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of...
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    Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq) was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq...
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    The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active...
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    The war in Iraq was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into full-scale...
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    Gulf War (redirect from UN-Iraq war)
    was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key...
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    southern Iraq (Jews and Christians only) Euphrates Qeltu Khawetna (Syria, Iraq, Turkey) Deir ez-Zor Anah and Abu Kamal Hit, Iraq Baghdadi Arabic is Iraq's de...
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    The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in...
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    1993 airstrikes on Iraq 1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq 1998 bombing of Iraq February 2001 airstrike in Iraq "U.S. Forces Hit Iraq Again in 2nd Round...
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    State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh...
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    Tishreen protests or 2019 Iraqi protests series of Riots, demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and civil disobedience took place in Iraq from 2019 until 2021....
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  • but was killed in a Mongol ambush near al-Anbar (near Falluja in modern Iraq) in 1261, and was succeeded, though not immediately, by his rather distant...
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  • Israel Defense Forces allegedly hit sites near the Iranian city of Isfahan, sites in Iraq and radar sites in Syria. An Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces command...
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    The Iraqi Police (IP) is the uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq. Its organisation, structure and recruitment were...
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    Imam Husayn Shrine (category Shia mosques in Iraq)
    of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Islam, in the city of Karbala, Iraq. It stands on the site of the Mausoleum of Husayn, who was a grandson of...
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    rivers'), more commonly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq, abbr. AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization...
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    The Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast majority of Iraqi Christians are indigenous...
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    The Iraq national football team (Arabic: منتخب الْعِرَاق لِكُرَةُ الْقَدَم) represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football...
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    of largest cities and towns in Iraq. This list includes the 80 most populous cities, towns, and sub-districts of Iraq, as of the most recent population...
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    Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have...
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    Iraqi Airways Company (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية العراقية, romanized: al-Xuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al-ʿIrāqiyyah), operating as Iraqi Airways, is the national carrier...
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    Iraq is a country in West Asia that largely corresponds with the territory of ancient Mesopotamia. The history of Mesopotamia extends from the Lower Paleolithic...
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    During the early stages of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein imported a number of T-72 tanks from the Soviet Union and Poland. The...
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  • In 2022, many dust storms have hit Iraq. One person has died and 5,000 people have been admitted to hospital. Flights from Baghdad and Najaf were grounded...
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    ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of...
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    There are various rationales for the Iraq War, both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent hostilities. The George W. Bush administration began actively...
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    Hillah Al Kifl Al-Hanaya Anah Al Diwaniyah Fallujah Haditha Haqlaniyah Hīt, Iraq Iskandariya Khan al Baghdadi Kufa (Najaf) Karbala Musayyib Nasiriyah Al-Qa'im...
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