Iraq
Ancient Babylon's location
Iraq is a country in the Middle East, bordered by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, with a small coastline on the Persian Gulf.
Ancient Mesopotamia, often called the cradle of civilization, occupied much of what is now Iraq.
The country holds some of the world's largest oil reserves and has been shaped by decades of conflict, including the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
The war in Iraq dominated news coverage for years.
Western Asian river
- EuphratesMajor Iraqi river
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
- SumerAncient southern Mesopotamia
- AssyriaAncient Mesopotamian empire
Ur · Nineveh · Gilgamesh · Hammurabi · Nebuchadnezzar · Code of Hammurabi · Fertile Crescent · Sargon
Forcible entry into territory
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- sectarianRigidly devoted to faction
- BaghdadIraqi seat of government
Fallujah · Mosul · ISIS · coalition · WMD · sanctions · no-fly zone · Saddam
Imam-following Muslim branch
- SunniIslam's largest branch adherent
- shrineSacred devotional place
- AshuraIslamic day of fasting
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
ayatollah · mosque · Yazidi · Christian · holy cities
Slippery viscous fluid
- OPECPetroleum exporters' coalition
- BasraIraqi port city
- reservesResources held back
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
pipelines · refineries · nationalization · export · production · petroleum · barrels · tankers
Tigris
Western Asian river
Assyria · Ur · Nineveh · Gilgamesh · Hammurabi · Nebuchadnezzar · Code of Hammurabi · Fertile Crescent · Sargon · cradle of civilization
Baghdad
Iraqi seat of government
Euphrates · Kurdistan · desert · marshlands · Tikrit
invasion
Forcible entry into territory
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- sectarianRigidly devoted to faction
Baghdad · Fallujah · Mosul · ISIS · coalition · WMD · sanctions · no-fly zone · Saddam · Baathist
Shiite
Imam-following Muslim branch
pilgrimage · ayatollah · mosque · Yazidi · Christian · holy cities
oil
Slippery viscous fluid
crude · pipelines · refineries · nationalization · export · production · petroleum · barrels · tankers · oil fields
Arabic
Semitic language family member
Turkmen · Yazidi · oud · dolma · Eid · Nowruz · calligraphy · poetry · hospitality · dinar
- AsiaChina, India, Japan, Thailand, Korea
- countriesChina, Brazil, France, Germany, India
- NationsChina, France, Japan, Germany, Mexico
- Middle EastBaghdad, Cairo, Iran, Jordan, Damascus
- Oil CountriesSaudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, United Arab Emirates
- Diverse NationsIndia, Indonesia, Russia, Nigeria, South Africa
IraqKuwait
Arabian Peninsula emirate
Iran · Israel · United States · Saudi Arabia · United Kingdom
IraqSwitzerland
Alpine republic, perpetually neutral
Norway · Singapore · Japan · Canada · New Zealand
IraqSwitzerland
Alpine republic, perpetually neutral
United Arab Emirates · Qatar · Oman · Singapore · Jordan
- Iraq War2003 US-led invasion
- Iraq vetMiddle East war veteran
- Iraq War vetFormer soldier, 2003 conflict
- Iraqi heritageAncestry from modern Mesopotamia
- Iraq invasion2003 war in Mesopotamia
- Iraqi Freedom2003 U.S. military operation