Iraq Primer

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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Current Crisis

• Fact Sheet: Operation Iraqi Freedom
• 2011 News: Iraq War
• 2010 News: Iraq War
• 2009 News: Iraq War
• 2008 News: Iraq War
• 2007 News: Iraq War
• 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
  Kurds | Shiites | Sunnis
  Euphrates | Tigris | Syrian Desert | Persian Gulf
  Baghdad | Basra | Erbil | Karbala | Kirkuk | Mosul | Nasiriyah
• 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 Wars, 1991 and 2003–2010
• 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)