OVERVIEW
The modern state of Iraq in 1920 was defined as a range of optional Iraq. He (later ", known as Irāq-i'Arab, but historically associated with Babylon) also includes part of upper Mesopotamia and Syria and the Arabian desert wilderness is centered on the lower Mesopotamia.
Fertile great part of Mesopotamia to the Neolithic (the Ubaid period) Age civilization in the early Bronze Age and Iron Age Pop and I formed a significant part (built around the ancient Near East in, Akkadian, .After the fall of Babylonian and Assyrian) Neo-Babylonian Empire to Mesopotamia to Persia, and then fell under Greek rule. This Persian (Sassanid) under the control again in the 3rd century by the previously displaced population had increased Arabs and the Arabic name al 'Irāq extended at this time.
The Sassanid Empire were displaced because of the caliphs Rashidun victory of Islam in the 7th century and destroyed. Baghdad in the 9th century, the "Abbasid caliphs of the Islamic Golden Age," she said. Baghdad rapid growth obviously in the 10th century due to Buwayhid and Seljuq invasion, but after the Mongol invasion in 1258., Turco- in Iraq became a Mongol empire and remained vital until ilkhanate declined in importance.
After the disintegration of the ilkhanate, Safavid Iran and Iraq intermittently under the control of the Mamluk fell in the 16th century in the Kara Koyunlu Jalairids and ruled until the Ottoman Empire to its eventual absorption.
At the end of the Ottoman rule during World War II, and tested following a coup in Iraq in 1958, established the Republic of Iraq, as the British government came to be governed by binding until the establishment of the government of Iraq in 1933.
This time, it falls to the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was under control from 1979 to 2003. Saddam Hussein, the US-led invasion of the country in 2003 were the following release. Over the years, over the central and southern part of the government with the control of the west, Iraq came to the brink of civil war, and in 2015, after the withdrawal of US troops in 2011, the worsening situation in Iraq effectively divided Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq and the Levant, and in the western part of the Islamic Empire .
HESTORY
1957-1961 Shanidar cave Ralph Solecki and Columbia University team, and of different ages and preserved and completeness (Shanidar labeled I - IX) on the governments of Neanderthal man was excavated during the nine skeletons have been found dating from 60-80,000 years BP. One-tenth of an individual during a faunal assemblage on the test site on the Ignite Institute recently found by M. Zeder.
Cremated Neandertals (flowers, but now is thought to be a modern contaminant) were burying their dead with flowers, seemed to suggest that Zeder was a funeral ceremony; And they took care of the injured and elderly individuals.
Mesopotamia, around 10,000 BC, is the earliest Neolithic Revolution events site. This has been identified as "honey discovery, the first cereal crops planted and cursive script, mathematics, some of the most important events in human history, astronomy, including agricultural development and inspiration."
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ
Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership, the ninth brigade officers ( "āzi- Za`īm", 'leader' as is known) Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim, under the direction of, "The four Colonials" known as Abdul Salam Arif, Colonel Grade 3 and new the government rejected the idea of union with the royal tables Hashimite on Iraq to be proclaimed in 1958, the Republic of Jordan on July 14. Activity in Iraq left Baghdad agreement.
In 1961, Kuwait gained independence from Britain and Iraq claimed sovereignty over Kuwait. A high instability followed. That same year, three years ago, Qasim began to return to Iraq had been invited by Mustafa Barzani, Iraq's first Kurdish Kurdish and government forces engaging in what is the beginning of the Iraqi war in the north control.
1. Ba'athist Iraq
The Ba'ath Party General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr-(Prime Minister) Abdul Salam Arif and Colonel (president), under the direction Qasim took power in February 1963, was executed. It was June 1963 on Syria, which fell under the Ba'athist regime, aircraft, armored vehicles and 6,000 soldiers in military campaigns against Iraqi Kurds by force.
A few months later, Abd as-Salam `mehāmedi` led a successful coup against the cool Ba'ath government. Cool the one hand, and the Peshmerga (freedom fighters) on the other divide between urban strikes on Kurdish Barzani-led forces provoked, which declared the truce in February 1964.
April 13, 1966, President Abdul Salam Arif died in a helicopter crash, his brother, General Abdul Rahman Arif replaced. This was followed by an unexpected death, Iraqi government launched a last-ditch effort to overcome the Kurds. Barzani forces sharply this time defeated Iraqi army in the war Handrin mountain near Rawanduz campaign, in May 1966, failed. Following the 1967 Six-Day War Ba'ath Party felt strong enough to retake power in 1968.
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr there Revolutionary Council (RCC) and the president and chairman. The Ba'ath government in 1969. This began a campaign to stop the stroke, which can be associated with the internal power struggle in Baghdad, the Kurdish part of Iran, violence and tension. Moreover, the Soviet Union come to terms with the Iraqis to pressure Barzani. Iraqi Kurdish rebels and the government ended with both rare successes, ended with more than 100,000 mortal victims.
After the first Kurdish Iraqi war, the peace plan of March 1970, the public and featured a large Kurdish gas. The plan also gave up a friendship with these four years.Despite representation of Kurds and government bodies, in order to implement this, Iraqi government began a program of Arabization in Kirkuk and Khanaqin oil rich regions in the same period.
In the following years, the government defeated the internal volume of Baghdad in April 1972, the Soviet Union Agreement concluded and ended in the Arab world and isolated. On the other hand, Kurds remained dependent on Iranian military assistance to small and can strengthen the forces. In 1974, only last until 1975, the situation in the north, Kurdish Iraqi War II, moved again.
2. Under Saddam Hussein
Increasing women's participation in the 1970's.
In July 1979, President Ahmed Hassan Bakr al-President and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, there are both Saddam Hussein, who, by the thought that I had to move offices.
Economy had been destroyed, - border disputes with Iran, a suspicious and precious eight-year-old led war, Iran-Iraq War (known as Saddam's Qādisiyyah '1980-1988, Qādisiyyat- Saddam). Iraq declared victory in 1988 but actually both sides of the border will remain in the first position Ante bellum, meaning a weak pinning back.
Iraq invaded Iran war, the boundary follows a long history, in 1980, of September 22 on the Iranian territory to launch air and land invasion in the bombing, and the Iranian revolution, the influence of Shia majority of Iraq's long-suffering yetefenu-Shia insurgency in the Hereafter. Iraq was also featured design to replace Iran in the Persian Gulf state. Saddam Hussein supported the United States in the war against Iran.
Iran's revolutionary thinking in Iraq to take advantage of the chaos and violence, but without formal notice, to Iran, and virtually all the territory lost in the next six years, in June 1982, will be repelled by Iranians who had made only limited progress in several months, Iran to the UN Security offensive.Despite the Council calls upon the armistice, continued until 20 August 1988 and hatred.
Finally, the House approved the war resolution in the UN Security Council to both sides of 598, ended with a truce brokered a United Nations organization. The Iranian armed forces View pre-war international boundaries to respect Iraqi territory for release (1975 Algiers Agreement between the two countries) took several weeks. In 2003, the last prisoners of war were exchanged.
An estimated 1 million victims of Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war, which cost Hussain
War is believed to have died in the war, with many more injured civilians-but if it is brought within the boundaries of life and economic damage and compensation or change-in value came half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers.
It is often compared with the conflict of World War II, in the methods used to close a massive trench, manpower and machine-gun posts on the barbed wire, bayonet charges, use of a fortress, a conflict that converting people, including the reflected wave of violence across the land, and Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds on the Iraqi government used chemical weapons extensively, such as mustard gas. "Chemical weapons were used in the war.
" At that time, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement, however, that the United Nations had made it clear that Iraq was using chemical weapons in the descriptions, so that "the international community is silent as Iraq and weapons of mass destruction on Iraqi Kurds in Iran as "There has been and is believed to be.
A long-standing debate about the state of Kuwait November 1990 1990 was due to an ostensible reason for the invasion of Iraq; The United Nations Security Council on Iraqi forces in Kuwait military action in its license, allowing member countries to use all the necessary efforts to comply with 678 receiving asked Saddam Hussein failed to demand this January 15, 1991, in a full withdrawal, the Persian Gulf War ( Operation "desert Storm") based on the January 17, 1991, perhaps 30,000 Iraqi soldiers and many civilians were a few thousand; And killed him.
Violence in southern Iraq in March 1991, demoralized Iraqi army soldiers began about Shia parties and anti-government Shiite-ruled. Another wave of guerrilla Kurdish population in northern Iraq rose after the lodging (See uprisings in Iraq in 1991). They Iraqi Ba'ath party rule, but the risk of serious, massive and indiscriminate force Saddam Hussein to suppress the rebellion and managed to maintain power.
These brutal Iraqi Republican Guard in the largest loyalist forces successfully destroyed and people were terrorized. Thousands of people have been killed during the unrest of a few weeks. While many Iraqis fled for their lives and nearly two million people died in the following months. Once established, while a combination of Iraqi minimi- fly zone, the government, the draining of swamps tet’wat’wafe Arabs forcibly resettled and the Iraqi marshlands.
On August 6, 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the United Nations Security Council, medical supplies, food and other essential humanitarian approach things, except to provide full trade sanctions, economic sanctions on Iraq, which is an obligation to try 661, adopted Security Council to make such a determination House sanctions Committee.
Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait after it was associated with hyperinflation and sanctions, Iraq was removed in 2003 to try to 687.From 1991 weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Gulf War, poverty and malnutrition have increased. Various degrees, the result of government policy, after the Gulf War and the sanctions regime would be responsible for these conditions.
During the late 1990's U.N. Because between the suffering of ordinary Iraqis: relaxed about penalties. Studies during the sanctions years, South Central and the number of men who have died in Iraq. In addition, any additional penalties because of a problem with the argument that this or any other factors.However result was, to ease the effects of sanctions on the oil for food program was established in 1996.
The United Nations when Iraqi cooperation with weapons inspection teams in the 1990s was the question on many occasions. UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew due to lack of cooperation from Iraq in November 1998, a team from Iraq. The team back in December.Butler compliance.
The he expressed dissatisfaction with the level of the same month later in a report prepared for the United Nations Security Council, US President Bill Clinton will air strikes on government targets and military facilities. Air strikes, and charges against WMD sites continued to military facilities in 2002.


















