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Nov 21, 2009
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Iraq Primer: Context for understanding the present conflict
Current Crisis
• Fact Sheet: Operation Iraqi Freedom
• 2006 News: Iraq War
• 2005 News: Iraq War
• 2004 News: Iraq War
• 2003 News: Iraq War
• Fighting Words: An Iraq War Glossary
• Timeline: Iraq War, 2002–Present
• Timeline: Iraq, 1920s–1999
• Country Profile: Iraq

History, Land, People
• Land and People • Kurdish History Timeline
• History of Iraq
• Iraq Economy

War and Conflict
• Operation Desert Fox, 1998–1999
• Iraq Crisis, 1997–1998
• Gulf War Chronology, 1990–1991
• Persian Gulf War, 1991
• Iran-Iraq War, 1980–1988

Rulers
• Iraq Rulers
• Ba'ath party, Arab political party
• Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq (1979–2003)
• Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, president of Iraq (1968–1979)
• General Abdul Karim Kassem, premier of Iraq (1958–1963)
• Faisal II, king of Iraq (1939–1958)
• Faisal I, king of Iraq (1921–1933)
map of Iraq
• Country Profile: Iraq
• Full-Size Map of Iraq

The Region:
• Middle East | Map
• Printable Map of the
Middle East
• Iran | Map
• Israel | Map
• Jordan | Map
• Kuwait | Map
• Oman | Map
• Qatar | Map
• Saudi Arabia | Map
• Syria | Map
• Turkey | Map
• UAE | Map
• Yemen | Map

See also:
• Islam Primer
• The United Nations

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The Islamic year is counted from the year in which Muhammad emigrated from Mecca to Medina (622).