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Starting in the late twentieth century, the Epic of Gilgamesh began to be read again in Iraq. Saddam Hussein , the former President of Iraq , had a lifelong fascination with Gilgamesh. [107] Saddam's first novel Zabibah and the King (2000) is an allegory for the Gulf War set in ancient Assyria that blends elements of the Epic of Gilgamesh and ...
Farhud (also Farhood; Arabic: الفرهود) was the pogrom or the "violent dispossession" that was carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941, immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum that followed the collapse of the pro-Nazi government of ...
e. Al-Kadhimiyya Mosque ( Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْكَاظِمِيَّة, romanized : Masjid al-Kāẓimiyya) is a Shi'a Islamic mosque and shrine located in the Kādhimiya suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shī'ī Imāms, respectively Mūsā al-Kādhim and his grandson Muhammad al-Jawad.
Baghdad, Iraq. Died. June 27, 1993 (aged 49) Baghdad, Iraq. Layla Al-Attar ( Arabic: ليلى العطار; May 7, 1944 – June 27, 1993) was an Iraqi artist and painter who became the Director of the Iraqi National Art Museum. Through her art, al-Attar expressed ideals that attempted to recognize the importance of women in all spheres of ...
Media coverage of the Gulf War. The Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) and commonly referred to as the Gulf War, was a war waged by a United Nations -authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's ...
Sadr City ( Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized : Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr ), formerly known as Al-Thawra ( Arabic: الثورة, romanized : aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City ( Arabic: مدينة صدام, romanized : Madīnat Ṣaddām ), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim ...
In February 2016, the United States Embassy in Iraq as well as the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi issued warnings that Mosul Dam could collapse. The United States warned people to evacuate the floodplain of the Tigris because between 500,000 and 1.5 million people were at risk of drowning due to flash flood if the dam collapses, and ...
In 2003 the 345th deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since November 2001, the 345th Tactical Psychological Operations Company (Airborne) has deployed detachments of soldiers to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (2008-2009), Iraq, and the Horn of Africa.