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Rank City or Town Governorate 1987 Census 2009 Estimate 2018 Estimate [1]; 1 Baghdad: Baghdad: 3,841,268 5,521,242 6,719,477 2 Mosul: Nineveh: 664,221 1,136,990
The United Nations implemention of strict economic sanctions on trade to and from on Iraq in 1990, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, impacted women's lives in Iraq more than men. [115] The gendered impact of the international sanctions on Iraq in 1990 significantly increased the challenges faced by women in all fields.
During the Iraq War, 179 British service personnel and at least three UK Government civilian staff died. [1]Many more were wounded. Of the more than 183 fatalities, 138 personnel were classified as having been killed in hostile circumstances, with the remaining 44 losing their lives as a result of illness, accidents/friendly fire, or suicide.
MSNBC also fired liberal Phil Donahue, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy, [8] a month before the invasion began and replaced his show with an expanded Countdown: Iraq, initially hosted by Lester Holt. [9] Shortly after Donahue's firing, MSNBC hired Michael Savage, a controversial conservative radio talk show host for a Saturday afternoon show. [10]
Eva Orner is an Australian Academy and Emmy Award-winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles.Her works include Untold Desires (winner of Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Awards, the Logie Awards and the Australian Human Rights Awards), Strange Fits of Passion (nominated for the Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival), Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2008 ...
February 1 – During the Muslim eid, two suicide bombers kill 117 and wound 235 at two Kurdish buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.The bombers targeted the two offices for Iraq's main secular Kurdish parties packed with well-wishers.
The most widely spoken language in Iraq is the Arabic language (specifically Mesopotamian Arabic); the second most spoken language is Kurdish (mainly Sorani and Kurmanji dialects), followed by the Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialect of Turkish, and many Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects.
The United States (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been involved in covert actions and contingency planning in Iraq ever since the 1958 overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy, although the historiography of Iraq–United States relations prior to the 1980s is considered relatively underdeveloped, with the first in-depth academic studies being published in the 2010s.