The Sons of Iraq (Arabic: أبناء العراق Abnāʼ al-ʻIrāq) or al-Sahwah (Arabic: الصحوة, lit. 'the awakening') were a coalition in the Al Anbar province in...
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The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), sometimes called the Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to...
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The flag of Iraq (Arabic: علم العراق; Kurdish: ئاڵای عێراق; Syriac: ܐܵܬ݂ܵܐ ܕܥܝܼܪܲܩ) is the national flag of Iraq, includes the three equal horizontal...
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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 major combat...
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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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State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the...
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Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under...
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king of Iraq (Arabic: ملك العراق, romanized: Malik al-‘Irāq) was Iraq's head of state and monarch from 1921 to 1958. He served as the head of the Iraqi monarchy—the...
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Coalition forces in Iraq after the invasion, while others went on to join Sons of Iraq or Anbar Awakening home guard militias, funded, trained, equipped and...
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (category Members of al-Qaeda in Iraq)
Sons of Iraq. The Sons of Iraq was instrumental in giving tips to coalition forces about weapons caches and militants resulting in the destruction of...
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Gulf War (redirect from 1990 invasion of Iraq)
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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Iraq, a country located in West Asia, largely coincides with the ancient region of Mesopotamia, often referred to as the cradle of civilization. The history...
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was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, the only son of Faisal I....
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lasted until the end of the Iraq War and U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It was followed by a renewed insurgency. The initial outbreak of violence (the 2003–2006...
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together with the Iraqi Communist Party, Popular Democratic Gathering and Independent Sons of Iraq. Naseer al-Chaderchi is a former leader of the party The...
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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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September 1933) was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933. A member of the Hashemite family, he was a leader of the Great Arab Revolt...
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The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict from 2006 to 2008 between various sectarian Shia and Sunni armed groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and...
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Qusay Hussein (category Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region)
صدام حسين; 17 May 1966 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and the second son of Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's...
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Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration, or Mandatory Iraq (Arabic: الانتداب البريطاني على العراق, romanized: al-Intidāb al-Brīṭānī ʿalā l-ʿIrāq), was...
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Jared Polis (redirect from Political positions of Jared Polis)
improving the situation." During a congressional trip to Iraq, he praised the "Sons of Iraq" policy, which funds former military and police officials...
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The Emblem of Iraq since the rule of Baathism features a golden black eagle looking towards the viewer's left dexter. The eagle is the Eagle of Saladin associated...
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David Petraeus (category Military leaders of the Iraq War)
continuing to develop Iraq's security forces and to support local security forces, often called Sons of Iraq, and integrate them into the Iraqi Army and Police...
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Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the US-led invasion of the country...
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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...
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Ali Hatem al-Suleiman (category People of the War in Iraq (2013–2017))
indiscriminate use of violence, as well as the fact that Al-Qaeda in Iraq did not give enough respect to Anbar's sheikhs. Ali joined the Sons of Iraq movement,...
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between Iraq and the United States began when the U.S. first recognized Iraq on January 9, 1930, with the signing of the Anglo-American-Iraqi Convention...
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Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on July 22, 2003, in the city of Mosul...
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the two sovereign states of Iran and Iraq. Both states have history that extends for millennia into the past. Iran and Iraq share a long border (the longest...
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War. After defeating the State of Kuwait on 4 August 1990, Iraq went...
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